1898

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The first gramaphone record is released by Gramaphone and Typewriter Ltd., Belagatchia. Bhai Vir Singh's Panjabi novel is published.

Two Italians, Colorello and Cornaglia organise films shows in tents at Azad Maidan, Bombay. Hiralal Sen starts making films. Amritlal Bose screens a packet of 'actualities' and 'fakes' at the Star Theatre, Calcutta, with plays and variety entertainments. The multinational Warwick Trading Co. commissions Panorama of Calcutta newsreel. Other films include Poona Races and Train Arriving at Churchgate station ( by Andersonoscograph). Miss Nelie Mountcastle's Serpentine and Rainbow Dance

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memoranda from 1898- raja ravi varma's diaries- how the plague in bombay affected their plans

The mismanagement of plague had stoked the fire of Tilak'a nationalist movement, stirring labour unrest.


Edward Muyrbridge constructs the first device for sequential photography. A long shed was built alongside a track and was fitted by twelve Scovill plate cameras placed side by side, and it wa a matter of chance which phase of the horse's movement was captured when the shutter was fired. Muybridge was still using wet plates as news of hte gelatin?? dry plates ahd not made ?? Amercia.


Discovery of radium

Debate on aluminium for cooking utensils.

Meesers. SPencer and Co., the celebrated ???? of Highbury are sending out the balloon which will be under the management of Mr. Herbert Spencer, a young brother of Mr. Percival SPencer, who in 1889, made at Government House, Parel, the first parachute descent ever seen in India.


Balendranath Tagore, 28 years old,

Whenever educated, westernised taste has interfered with this intuitive skill (of Indians) of applying pure colours, art has been distorted by the barbaric touch, as it were. The 'barbarians' have learnt only to comprehend the dictionary meaning of the natural and the artificial. They wish to turn the flowers on the carpet into real flowers and impose English patterns on the dazzling traditional colours of saree borders. The more mimetic the patterns is, the less artificial it becomes.


Dancing Scenes from the Flower of Persia Hiralal Sen