← 1550 1549 1548 1551 in India → 1552 1553 1554
Centuries:	15th 16th 17th 18th
Decades:	1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s
See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Events from the year 1551 in India.

• The first volume of "História do descobrimento e conquista da Índia pelos portugueses" (History of the discovery and conquest of India by the Portuguese) by Portuguese historia Fernão Lopes de Castanheda is published

• Nizamuddin Ahmad, Muslim historian of late medieval India (died 1621)

• Hindal Mirza Mughal prince and youngest son of Emperor Babur dies (born 1519)^[1]

• Timeline of Indian history

• História do descobrimento e conquista da Índia pelos portugueses, Book I (full text in Portuguese).