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| − | [[Twins]] were born that year, unlikely twins, the typewriter and the chromosome. The one an invention, the other a discovery. The invention was more evidently beautiful, designed, ornate, a carrier of language on the full moons of its keys. The chromosome was the silent younger sister, who contained a more dangerous, secret language. She was a soothsayer, she was a scroll, much like the one that is inserted into the tabeez and strung around the neck of a child. Only this scroll did not protect, it decreed..the long cell called the DNA, would tell the organism what was ordained for it, what kind of life it must live.
| + | Dada sits writing in his air borne studio, it is night at the windows. Opposite him, Saraswati Bai is winding rolls of film. Pages flutter in the breeze and the book 'speaks'. |
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| + | [http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1757592905107&comments]( swapnil rishikant shete's video) |
| − | [[Typewriter]]. Discovery of chromosomes. | |
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| + | Outside the window, at a contrast to the working Sarswati, the Nair Lady at her Toilet floats by like a constellation. The Malyalee woman, looking exactly as she does on Ravi Varma's canvas, is slowly arranging her hair in a bun to one side of her head. She passes till only her toes hang behind in the space where Dada sits writing. Then they too disappear. |
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| | + | [[Twins]] were born that year, unlikely twins, the typewriter and the chromosome. The one an invention, the other a discovery. The invention was more evidently beautiful, designed, ornate, a carrier of language on the full moons of its keys. The chromosome was the silent younger sister, who contained a more dangerous, secret language. She was a soothsayer, she was a scroll, much like the one that is inserted into the tabeez and strung around the neck of a child. Only this scroll did not protect, it decreed..some fingers had typed onto that long cell called the dna, what kind of life the organism must live. |
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| | + | [[Typewriter]]. Discovery of chromosomes. |
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| + | Ravi Varma's work comes to the notice of R Chisholm of the Madras Art School, who urges the Maharaja of Travancore to enter the paintings for the Madras Fine Arts Exhibiton. |
| − | | align="center" colspan=2 | <small>'''Years:'''</small><br> [[1870]] [[1871]] [[1872]] - [[1873]] - [[1874]] [[1875]] [[1876]]
| + | Ravi Varma gets the Governor's gold medal for his painting Nair Lady at her Toilet, he gets to meet the Governor of Madras in a private appointment. The foundations for the figure of the 'gentleman artist', native, yet friendly with the British.. are being laid, in the person of a young man, who, ironically, never attended any of the newly founded academies of British art. |
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| + | The work is later presented by the King of Travancore to the visiting king, Edward VII |
| − | | align="center" colspan=2 | <small>'''[[Decades]]:'''</small> <br> [[1840s]] [[1850s]] [[1860s]] - '''[[1870s]]''' - [[1880s]] [[1890s]] [[1900s]]
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| − | '''1873''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCCLXXIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Wednesday]] (see link for calendar). | |
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| − | ==Events==
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| − | ===January - April===
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| − | * [[January 17]] - [[Indian Wars]]: First Battle of the Stronghold during the [[Modoc War]].
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| − | * [[February 11]] - [[Spain|Spanish]] [[Cortes Generales|Cortes]] deposes King [[Amadeus I of Spain|Amadeus I]] and proclaims the [[First Spanish Republic]].
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| − | * [[February 12]] - Former foreign minister [[Emilio Cistelar y Ripoli]] becomes prime minister of the new Spanish Republic.
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| − | * [[February 20]] - The [[University of California]] opens its first [[medical school]] in [[San Francisco, California]]
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| − | * [[March 1]] - [[E. Remington and Sons]] of [[Ilion, New York]] start production of the first practical [[typewriter]].
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| − | * [[March 3]] - [[Censorship]]: The [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] enacts the [[Comstock Law]], making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
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| − | * [[March 15]] - The [[Phi Sigma Kappa]] fraternity is founded at the [[University of Massachusetts]]
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| − | * [[April 1]] - The [[United Kingdom|British]] steamer [[SS Atlantic|SS ''Atlantic'']] sinks off [[Nova Scotia]] killing 547.
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| − | * [[April 15]] - [[April 17|17]] - [[Indian Wars]]: Second Battle of the Stronghold
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| − | ===May - August===
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| − | * [[May 9]] ''Der Krach'': Vienna stock market crash heralds [[Long Depression]]
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| − | * [[May 23]] - The [[Canada | Canadian]] Parliament establishes the [[North West Mounted Police]] (which will be renamed the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] in [[1920]]).
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| − | * [[June 4]] - [[Indian Wars]]: The [[Modoc War]] ends with the capture of [[Captain Jack]].
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| − | * [[July 1]] - [[Prince Edward Island]] joins the [[Canadian Confederation]].
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| − | * [[July 21]] - At [[Adair, Iowa]], [[Jesse James 1847|Jesse James]] and the [[James-Younger gang]] pull off the first successful [[train robbery]] in the [[United States|American]] West (US$3,000 from the Rock Island Express).
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| − | * [[August 4]] - [[Indian Wars]]: While protecting a [[railroad]] survey party in [[Montana]], the [[US 7th Cavalry Regiment|Seventh Cavalry]], under Lieutenant Colonel [[George Armstrong Custer]], clash for the first time with the [[Sioux]] (near the [[Tongue River (Montana)|Tongue River]]; only one man on each side is killed).
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| − | ===September - December===
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| − | * [[September 16]] - [[Germany|German]] troops leave [[France]] upon completion of payment of indemnity for [[Franco-Prussian War]].
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| − | * [[September 18]] - [[New York, New York|New York]] stock market crash.
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| − | * [[September 25]] - Classes begin at [[Drury University]].
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| − | * [[November 6]] - Formation of the [[Halifax, West Yorkshire| Halifax]] [[Rugby League| Rugby]] Club.
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| − | * [[November 7]] - [[Alexander Mackenzie]] becomes [[Canada]]'s second [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]].
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| − | * [[November 17]] - From [[Pest (city)|Pest]], [[Buda]] and [[Óbuda]], [[Budapest]], Hungary's capital is formed.
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| − | * [[December 15]] - Women of [[Fredonia]], [[New York]] march against the retail liquor dealers in town to inaugurate the Woman's Crusade of 1873-74. This led to the creation of the [[Woman's Christian Temperance Union]].
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| − | * [[December 21]] - Francis Garnier is attacked outside of Hanoi by Black Flag mercenaries fighting for the Vietnamese
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| − | * [[Toronto Argonauts]] are founded. The oldest pro sports team still playing in North America.
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| − | * [[Rangers F.C.]] are founded. Rangers go on to be the most successful club in the world in terms of trophies won.
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| − | * The [[United Kingdom]] declares war against [[Ashanti|Ghana]]'s King Kofi KariKari, who was involved in the trading of [[slaves]]. The war ended by July and the British established the [[Gold Coast_(British colony)|Gold Coast Colony]].
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| − | * [[Coors Brewing Company]] begins making [[beer]] in [[Golden, Colorado]].
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| − | * [[Heineken]] [[brewery]] is founded in [[Amsterdam]], the [[Netherlands]].
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| − | * [[DDT]] first synthesized.
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| − | * Swedish arms company [[Bofors]] is incorporated.
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| − | * In [[Mexico]], [[Veracruz (city)|Veracruz]] to [[Mexico City]] railroad completed.
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| − | * Royal Montreal Club in [[Montreal, Quebec]] is founded, becoming the first permanent [[golf]] club in [[North America]].
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| − | * [[Henry Rose]] exhibits [[barbed wire]] at an [[Illinois]] county fair, which is taken up by [[Joseph Glidden]] and [[Jacob Haish]], who invent a machine to mass-produce it.
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| − | * Britain puts pressure on Sultan Barghash Sayyid who closes slave markets in [[Zanzibar]]
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| − | * [[Peter Tchaikovsky]] composes ''The Tempest''
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| − | * First running of the [[Preakness Stakes]] horse race in [[Baltimore, Maryland]]
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| − | * SUN was founded
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| − | * Womans Temperance League organized by [[Eliza Daniel Stewart]]
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| − | * [[Central Park]] is officially completed in [[New York City]], [[New York]].
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| − | ==Births==
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| − | ===January-March===
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| − | * [[January 2]] - Saint [[Thérèse de Lisieux]], Roman Catholic nun (d. [[1897]])
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| − | * [[January 7]] - [[Adolph Zukor]], Austrian-born film studio pioneer (d. [[1976]])
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| − | * [[January 10]] - [[George Orton]], Canadian athlete (d. [[1958]])
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| − | * [[January 12]] - [[Spiridon Louis]], Greek runner (d. [[1940]])
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| − | * [[January 20]] - [[Johannes Vilhelm Jensen]], Danish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1950]])
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| − | * [[January 28]] - [[Colette]], French writer (d. [[1954]])
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| − | * [[February 2]] - [[Maurice Tourneur]], French film director (d. [[1961]])
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| − | * [[February 3]] - [[Karl Jatho]], German aviation pioneer (d. [[1933]])
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| − | * [[February 4]] - [[Etienne Desmarteau|Étienne Desmarteau]], Canadian athlete (d. [[1905]])
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| − | * [[February 13]] - [[Feodor Chaliapin]], Russian bass (d. [[1938]])
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| − | * [[February 15]] - [[Hans von Euler-Chelpin]], German-born chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1964]])
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| − | * [[February 25]] - [[Enrico Caruso]], Italian tenor (d. [[1921]])
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| − | * [[March 3]] - [[William Green]], American labor leader (d. [[1952]])
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| − | * [[March 11]] - [[David Horsley]], English-born film executive (d. [[1933]])
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| − | * [[March 19]] - [[Max Reger]], German composer (d. [[1916]])
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| − | ===April-June===
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| − | *[[April 1]] ([[Gregorian calendar|N.S.]]); [[March 20]] ([[Julian calendar|O.S.]]) - [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]], Russian composer and pianist (d. [[1943]])
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| − | *[[April 7]] - [[John McGraw (baseball)|John McGraw]], baseball player and manager (d. [[1934]])
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| − | *[[April 10]] - [[Kyösti Kallio]], [[Prime Minister of Finland|Prime Minister]] and [[President of Finland]] (d. [[1940]])
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| − | *[[April 19]] - [[Sydney Barnes]], English cricketer (d. [[1967]])
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| − | *[[April 22]] - [[Ellen Glasgow]], American writer (d. [[1945]])
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| − | *[[May 4]] - [[Joe De Grasse]], Canadian film director (d. [[1940]])
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| − | *[[May 9]] - [[Anton Cermak]], Mayor of Chicago (d. [[1933]])
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| − | *[[May 17]] - [[Henri Barbusse]], French novelist and journalist (d. [[1935]])
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| − | *[[May 17]] - [[Dorothy Richardson]], English feminist writer (d. [[1957]])
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| − | *[[May 28]] - [[D.D. Sheehan]], Irish politician (d. [[1948]])
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| − | *[[June 3]] - [[Otto Loewi]], German-born pharmacologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1961]])
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| − | *[[June 26]] - [[Alexis Carrel]], French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1944]])
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| − | ===July-September===
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| − | * [[July 1]] - [[Alice Guy-Blaché]], French-American filmmaker (d. [[1968]])
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| − | * [[July 20]] - [[Alberto Santos-Dumont]], Brazilian aviation pioneer (d. [[1932]])
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| − | * [[August 26]] - [[Lee De Forest]], American inventor (d. [[1961]])
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| − | * [[September 5]] - [[Cornelius Vanderbilt III]], American military officer, inventor, engineer (d. [[1942]])
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| − | * [[September 8]] - [[David O. McKay]], president of [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints|The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (d. [[1970]])
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| − | * [[September 20]] - [[Sidney Olcott]], pioneer film director (d. [[1949]])
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| − | * September 20 - [[Ferenc Szisz]], Hungarian-born race car driver (d. [[1944]])
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| − | * [[September 21]] - [[Papa Jack Laine]], jazz musician (d. [[1966]])
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| − | ===October-December===
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| − | * [[October 14]] - [[Ray Ewry]], American athlete (d. [[1937]])
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| − | * [[October 19]] - [[Jaap Eden]], Dutch skater and cyclist (d. [[1925]])
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| − | * [[October 26]] - [[Thorvald Stauning]], [[Prime Minister of Denmark]] (d. [[1942]])
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| − | * [[November 16]] - [[W.C. Handy]], American blues composer (d. [[1958]])
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| − | *[[November 22]] - [[Johnny Tyldesley]], English cricketer (d. [[1930]])
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| − | * [[December 7]] - [[Willa Cather]], American novelist (d. [[1947]])
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| − | * [[December 11]] - [[Josip Plemelj]], Slovenian mathematician (d. [[1967]])
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| − | * [[December 17]] - [[Ford Maddox Ford]], English writer (d. [[1939]])
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| − | * [[December 26]] - [[Thomas Wass]], Nottinghamshire [[bowler (cricket)|bowler]] (d. [[1953]])
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| − | * [[December 30]] - [[Al Smith]], American politician (d. [[1944]])
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| − | ===Unknown dates===
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| − | *[[James Cousins]], Irish writer (d. [[1956]])
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| − | *[[Leon Czolgosz]], assassin of U.S. President [[William McKinley]] (d.[[1901]])
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| − | *[[William Ernest Hocking]], American philosopher (d. [[1966]])
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| − | ==Deaths==
| + | Satya Shodhak Samaj founded by Jotirao Phule |
| − | *[[January 9]] - [[Napoleon III]], last Emperor of France (b. [[1808]])
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| − | *[[January 18]] - [[Edward George Bulwer-Lytton]], English writer (b. [[1803]]
| + | Eileen Angelina Yeoward is born in Aazamgarh. She is second generation in a family which has seen happiness in a mixed liaison ( her grandmother, Rukmani and Hardy Hemmings), hard times post the white man's sudden death, renewal via another white man who married the mother (Robert William Yoward marries Victoria Hemmings).. |
| − | *[[January 29]] - [[Basil Moreau|The Venerable Father Basil Anthony Marie Moreau]], Founder of the [[Congregation of Holy Cross]] (b. [[1799]])
| + | When the husband leaves to work at the indigo plantation, for long stretches of time, Victoria begins learning music from her neighbor, Jogeshwar Bharati. Robert divorces his wife. She begins teaching music for a hard living, becomes mistress to Khurshid, a local muslim nobleman and leaves with her family and him when the town turns against them, for Banaras. |
| − | *[[February 7]] - [[Sheridan Le Fanu]], Irish writer (b. [[1814]])
| + | In Banaras, eager to shed the past, she converts and becomes Malka and renames her daughter, Gauhar. |
| − | *[[February 19]] - [[Vasil Levski]], Bulgarian revolutionary (b. [[1837]])
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| − | *[[March 10]] - [[ John Torrey]], American botanist (b. [[1796]])
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| − | *[[April 11]] - [[Edward Canby]], U.S. general (b. [[1817]])
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| − | *[[April 18]] - [[Justus von Liebig]], German chemist (b. [[1803]])
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| − | *[[May 6]] - [[José Antonio Páez]], first [[President of Venezuela]] (b. [[1790]])
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| − | *[[May 7]] - [[Salmon P. Chase]], [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (b.[[1808]])
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| − | *[[May 8]] - [[John Stuart Mill]], British philosopher (b. [[1806]])
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| − | *[[May 20]] - [[George-Étienne Cartier]], Canadian statesman (b. [[1814]])
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| − | *[[June 1]] - [[Joseph Howe]], Canadian politician (b. [[1804]])
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| − | *[[September 17]] - [[Alexander Berry]], Scottish adventurer and Australian pioneer (b. [[1781]])
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| − | *[[September 22]] - [[Friedri
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Dada sits writing in his air borne studio, it is night at the windows. Opposite him, Saraswati Bai is winding rolls of film. Pages flutter in the breeze and the book 'speaks'.
[1]( swapnil rishikant shete's video)
Outside the window, at a contrast to the working Sarswati, the Nair Lady at her Toilet floats by like a constellation. The Malyalee woman, looking exactly as she does on Ravi Varma's canvas, is slowly arranging her hair in a bun to one side of her head. She passes till only her toes hang behind in the space where Dada sits writing. Then they too disappear.
Twins were born that year, unlikely twins, the typewriter and the chromosome. The one an invention, the other a discovery. The invention was more evidently beautiful, designed, ornate, a carrier of language on the full moons of its keys. The chromosome was the silent younger sister, who contained a more dangerous, secret language. She was a soothsayer, she was a scroll, much like the one that is inserted into the tabeez and strung around the neck of a child. Only this scroll did not protect, it decreed..some fingers had typed onto that long cell called the dna, what kind of life the organism must live.
Typewriter. Discovery of chromosomes.
Ravi Varma's work comes to the notice of R Chisholm of the Madras Art School, who urges the Maharaja of Travancore to enter the paintings for the Madras Fine Arts Exhibiton.
Ravi Varma gets the Governor's gold medal for his painting Nair Lady at her Toilet, he gets to meet the Governor of Madras in a private appointment. The foundations for the figure of the 'gentleman artist', native, yet friendly with the British.. are being laid, in the person of a young man, who, ironically, never attended any of the newly founded academies of British art.
The work is later presented by the King of Travancore to the visiting king, Edward VII
evolution of life. chapman
Satya Shodhak Samaj founded by Jotirao Phule
Eileen Angelina Yeoward is born in Aazamgarh. She is second generation in a family which has seen happiness in a mixed liaison ( her grandmother, Rukmani and Hardy Hemmings), hard times post the white man's sudden death, renewal via another white man who married the mother (Robert William Yoward marries Victoria Hemmings)..
When the husband leaves to work at the indigo plantation, for long stretches of time, Victoria begins learning music from her neighbor, Jogeshwar Bharati. Robert divorces his wife. She begins teaching music for a hard living, becomes mistress to Khurshid, a local muslim nobleman and leaves with her family and him when the town turns against them, for Banaras.
In Banaras, eager to shed the past, she converts and becomes Malka and renames her daughter, Gauhar.
