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| | 3 | * The former Congress Party activist Surya Sen leads an Indian Republican Army raid on the police and auxiliary force armouries at Chittagong. The group launched a sustained guerrilla action against the British, triggering several terrorist movements in and around Midnapore, and brutal state reprisals against the entire nationalist movement. |
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| | 5 | * The poet Mohammed Iqbal suggests a merging of the North West Frontier Province, Punjab, Sind and Baluchistan into a single state, the ancestor of Pakistan. |
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| | 7 | * Gandhi inaugurates the civil disobedience movement with his epic march from Ahmedabad to Dandi to defy the Salt Act. |
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| | 9 | * The Department of Industries and Labour takes over radio operations and starts the Indian Broadcasting Service in Bombay and Calcutta. |
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| | 11 | * Physicist C. V. Raman wins the Nobel Prize for his theory of the ‘Raman Effect’ of scattered light. |
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| | 13 | * Rabindranath Tagore, who started painting aged 67, has his first exhibition at the Galerie Pigalle, Paris; the show travels through Europe and opens at the Town Hall, Calcutta, in 1931. |
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| | 15 | * Abanindranath Tagore paints his definitive work, the Arabian Nights series. |
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| | 17 | * Munshi Premchand publishes the first number of his journal Hans. |
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| | 19 | * Sailajananda Mukherjee starts the Bengali film weekly Bioscope reporting the Hollywood, Bombay and Calcutta film industries and publishing reviews, pre-release synopses of films, industrial surveys and, occasionally, essays about technical and aesthetic issues. |
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| | 21 | * Ambalal Patel and Chimanlal Desai start Sagar Film. Gubbi Veeranna starts production with the Gubbi-Karnataka Films Corp. at the Malleshwaram Studios in Bangalore. |
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