1850 in India
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Events in the year 1850 in India.
Events
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. [citation needed]
Law
- Judicial Officers Protection Act
- Piracy Act (British statute)
Births
- 9 September – Bharatendu Harishchandra, writer and poet (died 1882).