Events in the year 1850 in India.
Events National income - ₹5,910 million The ceremony of turning the first sod for the Great Indian Peninsula Railway from Mumbai to Kalyan was performed by J. P. Willoughby at a place near Sion.
Law Judicial Officers Protection Act Piracy Act (British statute)
Births 9 September – Bharatendu Harishchandra, writer and poet (died 1882).