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[[C.R.Das]] and [[Motilal Nehru]] start the [[Swaraj Party]] to enter legislative assemblies. It achieves wider Muslim and Hindu support than the Congress, but by 1928 the party represents mainly conservative Hindu landlord interests in the communally charged Bengal. [[Aparesh Chandra Mukherjee]]'s Karanarjun at Calcutta's [[Star Theatre]] confirms the commercial theatre's dominant language, influencing much of the early Bengali cinema. The Hindustan Times is launched. The Bengali literary journal, [[Kallol]], edited by [[Dinesh Ranjan Das]], is first published and becomes the foremost literary journal of its time, lending its name to the Kallol group.

One of the early Bengali film weeklies, [[Sachitra Sisir]], edited by [[Bijoyratna Majmdar]], contains film and theatre reviews as well as production news. The elite literary journal [[Bharati]] ( founded in 1877 and regarded as a journal of the Tagore clan) carries a serialised history of Bengali cinema. Entertainment tax of 12 1/2 % is levied in Bombay. The [[Saurashtra Kinematograph]] is set up in Rajkot.

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HansaThapliyal at 14:30, 31 July 2006