1901
The reformist leader Mahadev Govind Ranade dies. Tagore establishes the Brahmacharya Ashram, the nucleus of the Vishwabharti University of Shantiniketan. Fakir Mohan Senapati publishes his Oriya historical novel, Lachama. Vishnu Digambar Paluskar sets up the first music school, the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya in Lahore. Edward 7 is crowned following the death of Queen Victoria. the North West Frontier Province is created. Ramananda Chattopadhaya starts editing Prahasi, a high- profile, extensively illustrated Bengali literary monthly which pioneers the popular mix of book excerpts, poetry and one-act plays alongside reviews and essays(occasionally on film); its serialised fiction includes Rabindranath Tagore's Gora ( 1907-1909).
Hiralal Sen's Royal Bioscope establishes films exhibition alongside the commercial theatre in Calcutta, filming extracts from plays. Bhatavdekar films the landing of Sir M.M.Bhownuggree and the arrival ( returning from Cambridge University) of Sir Wrangler Mr. R.P.Paranjype.
1901 in ravi verma's diaries [1] onwards...
The brothers go to see the play Romeo and Juliet in Hindustani. they browse at Taraporevala Bookshop. They work at various images simultaneously in their studio.
That year they take up an important assignement in Udaipur, where they asked to make large copies of traditional miniature paintings of the King's ancestors.
The arrival of the half tone in printing.. will create a popular taste in shadows, perspective, Indian gods in western modes of representation. Good reproductions were to become all important. The earliest monochrome half tone plates were Sashi Hesh's Puranic illustration in Pradip(1901) and Ravi Varma's Sita in Prabasi. Varma's Woman Playing the Sarasvat in Prabasi (1902) using the "Ray Tint Process", captured for the first time the softer tones of an oil painting, which pleased the famous artist.
