← 1500 1499 1498 1501 in India → 1502 1503 1504
Centuries:	15th 16th 17th 18th
Decades:	1500s 1510s 1520s
See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

The following lists events that happened during 1501 in India.

Incumbents

• Prabhat Ray, founder and ruler of the Jaintia Kingdom, 1500–1516^[1]
• Miran Adil Khan II, Sultan of the Faruqi dynasty, 1457–1501
• Rudra Pratap Singh, Raja of Orchha State, 1501-1531
• Dhanya Manikya, Maharaja of Tripura, 1463-1515

Events

• The 2nd Portuguese India Armada (Cabral, 1500) left India in January
• The 3rd Portuguese India Armada (Nova, 1501), funded by Bartolomeo Marchionni, landed in India in August
• The Portuguese Armada fought the navy of the Zamorin of Calicut in the First Battle of Cannanore on 31 December
• Pedro Álvares Cabral left India on 16 January and returned to Portugal with pepper, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, mace, and cloves. The profits made from this trip were huge.^[2]
• Guru Nanak made his first Udaasis, stopping in Gwarighat on the way back
• Mallabairegowda built Devanahalli Fort^[3]
• Rudra Pratap Singh founded Orchha State^[4]

• Sikandar Lodi conquered Dholpur in Rajasthan
• Portuguese tried to conquer Diu Island but failed
• Dhanya Manikya constructed the Tripura Sundari Temple in Udaipur, Tripura
• Nilakantha Somayaji wrote Tantrasamgraha, an important astronomical treatise
• The Jain manuscript Devasanpada Kalpasutra was written

Deaths

• Miran Adil Khan II, Sultan of the Faruqi dynasty
• Ali-Shir Nava'i, who extensively influenced India, died on 9 February in Herat, Timurid Empire