'''1914: Key Events'''

* Start of WW1. Indian soldiers fight with British forces at Kut-al-Amara in Turkey and in Mesopotamia. 

* Gandhi’s agreement with General Smuts in South Africa on immigration and taxation laws for Indians is the first political success of his Satyagraha (non-violent) ‘experiments with truth’. 

* The Komagata Maru sails from Hong Kong to Vancouver carrying 376 passengers including several Sikh Ghadar activists, and is refused entry by Canadian authorities. Ali Kazmi has made a documentary [[http://www.socialdoc.net/kazimi/ali_html_pages2/1AK2Cont.html|Continuous Journey]] about this incident

* The MacMahon Line fixes the border between India and China, leading to disputes erupting in the 1962 war.

* Phalke shows his first three features, Raja Harishchandra, Mohini Bhasmasur and Satyavan Savitri, in London. 

* R. Venkaiah and R. S. Prakash build Madras’s first permanent cinema, the Gaiety.