• Madhav Prasad Mishra’s short story, Ladki Ki Bahaduri, appears in the journal Sudarshan. It is sometimes cited as the first work of short fiction in the still-evolving Hindustani language.

• Veer Savarkar, later associated with the right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, starts the Abhinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists.

• The Maharashtra Natak Mandali introduces naturalist prose theatre, later associated with the stage/film star Keshavrao Date.

• Manek D. Sethna starts the Touring Cinema Co. in Bombay, showing The Life of Christ (two reels).