1898
The first gramaphone record is released by Gramaphone and Typewriter Ltd., Belagatchia. Bhai Vir Singh's Panjabi novel is published.
Two Italians, Colorello and Cornaglia organise films shows in tents at Azad Maidan, Bombay. Hiralal Sen starts making films. Amritlal Bose screens a packet of 'actualities' and 'fakes' at the Star Theatre, Calcutta, with plays and variety entertainments. The multinational Warwick Trading Co. commissions Panorama of Calcutta newsreel. Other films include Poona Races and Train Arriving at Churchgate station ( by Andersonoscograph).
memoranda from 1898- raja ravi varma's diaries- how the plague in bombay affected their plans
The mismanagement of plague had stoked the fire of Tilak'a nationalist movement, stirring labour unrest.