1915
The Defence of India Act. Gopal Krishna Gokhale dies. Aga Hashr Kashmiri writes his best-known and most often filmed play, Yahudi ki Ladki. Govindrao Tembe starts the Shivraj Natak Mandali. FIrst South Indian feature: R. Nataraja Mudaliar's Gopal Krishna.
Publication of The History of Railway Thieves discussed in Criminality and Colonial Anthropology by Vinay Lal [1]
Gauhar Jaan visiting Maharashtra, also tutors the young daughter of Abdul Karim Khan who goes onto become Hirabai Barodkar. She also tries to find out what she hears of as her work being plagiarized by Natya Sangeet. Her records are so popular all over.. Indeed, Govindrao Tembe, talented harmonium player and music director in Bal Gandharva's Gandharva Natak Mandali, introduced the purab-ang thumri and dadra into natya sangeet- huge success.
She found many of her songs had been adapted.. recognizably so.
