1881
Factory Act. fixed working hours for children below 12 dangerous machines fenced.
Vernacular Press Act repealed.
Census System introduced in India
A curtain- huge seven story mansion of Bombay, streets, railway lines, ships and factories.
Phalke's Uncle went to work in the railways every day, and came back to his private practice of homeopathy. One corner of the front room in Dadar had shelves full of glass bottles with small sugar balls, and various liquid poisons.
Dhundiraj falls ill that summer, with something like a water poisoning. He is unable to attend school. One morning he wakes up from a night of knotted dreams to see white pills being shaken by his bedside in a glass container with water.
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Phalke is not sure he wants to have this strange medicine.
Dialogue between Phalke and the Uncle about homeopathy.
His uncle tells him that water has a memory, this water that he is coating the sugar pills with, has been given the same poison that is attacking Dhundi's body. The water has been diluted again and again, till almost all trace of the poison is gone, and when it enters Dhundi's body, it will fight the body's poison with its own memory of that poison.
"Like Abhimanyu's memory, from the liquid womb", his uncle exclaims
Dhundi makes a wry face and thinks to himself " We know what happened to Abhimanyu"
But strangely, he is soon cured of his illness. He cannot decide whether the illness just ran its natural course, or whether the pensive waters actually fought a war on his behalf.
A telephone exchange opens in Budapest. Nicola Tesla becomes its chief electrician.
1881 Ravi Varma spends time in Baroda. He is invited to attend the investiture ceremony of Sayaji, who is finally getting his rightful powers as a king. T Madhava Rao is Dewan at the Baroda court. As state guest of Baroda, Ravi Varma paints prolifically. He gets an order of five Puranic and religious pictures.
