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• Puranas
  he origins of the (divine) myths of India are the Puranas which are Sanskrit writings about primordial times; and par
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• INDIAN CINEMA
  ...s spellbound, and went on to encourage the making of the motion picture in India. The first Cinema show in India was arranged by the agents of two French brothers, Louis and August Lumiere
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• Indian Cinema
  ...s spellbound, and went on to encourage the making of the motion picture in India. The first Cinema show in India was arranged by the agents of two French brothers, Louis and August Lumiere
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• 1896
  ...iness centre was more impressed by these influences than any other part of India. Book illustrations in texts printed my Macmillan and other English firms w ...[[Bankim Chandra Chatterjee]]'s Vande Mataram ( Hail to the Mother) one of India's National Anthems later appropriated by Hindu chauvinists, is recited for
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• 1913
  The first telephone service in India begins in Simla; the first carrier system is between Delhi and Agra in 1930
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• `1899`
  ...urzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston|Lord Curzon]] becomes [[Viceroy of India]].
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• Hiralal Sen
  Dacca, East Bengal, British India [now Dhaka, Bangladesh] Calcutta, West Bengal, British India [now India].
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• Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatavadekar or Save Dada
  ...harajas, Dusserah Festivals, day-to-day life of people in various parts of India, snippets from Parsi Theatre etc. Dadasaheb Phalke though known as the fath ...he Documentary Film and laid the foundation of the Documentary Movement in India.
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• ‘Anti-Partition day’
  ...and they are sometimes not without serious influence on the Government of India. The whole of their activity is directed to creating an agency so powerful ...the King-Emperor of India has been signified by the Secretary of State for India in Council is published:
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• Caves
  ...gave an account of such mysterious places in the Sahyadra Range of Western India. Hindus held, she wrote, that somewhere in the neighbourhood of this hill t ...pyramid came originally from the ancient traditions of a more mountainous India, where cave temples have been known to abound for millennia. Under the tute
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• Tableaux form in pat
  ...nt corpus of publications has established a place for Kalighat painting in India’s artscape (see the bibliography). The painters who created the style wer ...hip, and criticism are exploring the place of contemporary art practice in India’s complex artscape as well as its relation to art practice elsewhere, now
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• Calendar art
  ...che for himself in painting, thus bringing laurels to his work not only in India but also worldwide. Most of his paintings are based on Hindu epic stories a
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• Ravi Verma
  ...ing oil paintings of India’s ancient glory delighted turn-of-the-century India and his mass reproductions through oleography reached out to the Indian pop ...le shades of complexions. Though several folk and traditional art forms of India since time immemorial subsisted as illustrations for religious narratives,
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• The fifth head of Brahma
  ...o become obsessed with her. He directed that there be no proper worship in India for the "unholy" Brahma. Thus, only Vishnu and Shiva continue to be worship
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• Arrival of Sound Cinema
  ...enrolled Edison in her newly formed Theosophical Society and departed for India with one of the new inventions.39 But if the phonograph could be seen as pa ...tors on current political events, travelers and guides to distant locales (India, Norway, the Grand Canyon). The Northern Chautauqua also set aside one or t
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• Kolhapur
  ...British rule on India. At the time of independence Kolhapur was merged in India along with most of the other princely states. Kolhapur's palaces are renown
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• World of theatre
  ...of time, Parsi proprietors set up a network of theatrical companies across India. Their popular, often sensational fare, with a heady measure of music and s ...e Shakespearean theatrical presence in various states and languages across India. In Marathi, the 65 versions between 1867 and 1915 were followed by only tw
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• ‘Shakuntala’
  ...writings refers to the capital city of Ujjain of the greatest Emperor of India Vikrama Aditya and the Vikram Calendar is in its 2060th year. Thus kalidas Dushmanta- Emperor of India.
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• Raja Deen Dayal
  The glass plate negatives of one of India's pioneer photographers, Raja Deen Dayal occupy the bulk and pride of place
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• World War 2
  India The land of India also served as an assault and training base, and provided vast quantities o
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