1910

Differences with Seth Purushottamdas about the running of the press.

Nadia was born Mary Evans. Her mother was Greek and her father Welsh. Her professional career started as a stenotypist.

T. Mudaliar, car import under Ronnerdan Company.

Letters to the TOI

- the Indian anarchists

- The Chitpavan Brahmans

- Transvaal Indians

- Indian textbooks

Rabindranath Tagore publishes Geetanjali. The All-India Hindu Mahasabha is lauched at Allahabad, allegedly in response to the Muslim League, intensifying communal hostilites in Indian politics.

Dadasaheb Phalke attends a screening of Life of Christ at P.B.Mehta's America-India Cinema.

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Publication of Valentin Chirol's Indian Unrest

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16444/16444-8.txt

1910 in phalke's journey same as 1909 in phalke's journey

"That in India the British Government has found the centres of active disaffection located in the Maratha country and in Lower Bengal, is a phenomenon which can be to a large extent accounted for by reference to Anglo-Indian history. The fact that Poona is one focus of sedition has been attributed in this volume to the survival among the Maratha Brahmins of the recollection that "far into the eighteenth century Poona was the capital of a theocratic State in which behind the Throne of the Peshwas both spiritual and secular authority were concentrated in the hands of the Brahmins." The Peshwas, as their title implies, had been hereditary Ministers who governed in the name of the reigning dynasty founded by the famous Maratha leader Sivajee, whose successors they set aside. But before the end of the eighteenth century the secular authority of the Peshwas had become almost nominal, and the real power in the State had passed into the grasp of a confederation of chiefs of predatory armies, whose violence drove the last Peshwa, more than a century ago, to seek refuge in a British camp. The political sovereignty of the Brahmins had disappeared from the time when he placed himself under British protection; and the Maratha chiefs (who were not Brahmins) only acknowledged our supremacy after some fiercely contested battles; with the result that they were confined to and confirmed in the possession of the territories now governed by their descendants. But it is quite true that to the memory of a time when for once, and once only, in Indian history, their caste established a great secular dominion, may be ascribed the tendency to disloyalty among the Maratha Brahmins."

..and the various indications of a desire to reform and purify their ancient religion may be partly due to the perception among educated Hindus that so contradictory a position is ultimately untenable, that the incongruity between sacrifices to the goddess Kali and high University degrees is too manifest.

From the Introduction by Sir Alfred Lyall