• The reformist leader Mahadev Govind Ranade dies.

• Tagore establishes the Brahmacharya Ashram, the nucleus of the Vishwabharati 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 VII is crowned following the death of Queen Victoria.

• The North West Frontier Province is created.

• Ramananda Chattopadhyay starts editing Prabasi, 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 film 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. Paranjpye.