'''1934: Key Events'''

* The Congress Socialist Party is founded in Bombay, consisting of a group of Marxists, including Jayaprakash Narayan, Achyut Patwardhan and Yusuf Meherally; it later re- established links with the A. P. Kisan Sabhas and emphasised land reform as an integral part of the nationalist agenda. 

* The CPI is banned. 

* Jinnah returns from England to head the Muslim League. 

* Major earthquake in Bihar, destroying the city of Monghyr. 

* The Royal Indian Navy is set up. 

* Bengal’s ‘establishment’ literary weekly Desh starts.

* [[Bombay Talkies]] is established. 

* Zubeida and Nanubhai Vakil start Mahalaxmi Cinetone. 

* First sound features in Oriya (Seeta Bibaha) and Kannada (Bhakta Dhruva). 

* Ch. Narasimha Rao’s Seeta Kalyanam, for Vel Pictures, is the first sound feature made in Madras. 

* Meenakshi Cinetone is founded with K. Subramanyam’s Pavalakkodi. 

* Priyanath Ganguly helps start Kali Films in Calcutta. 

* Rajit studio’s Toofan Mail is the Hindi cinema’s first major success in the ‘stunt’ film genre, leading to Wadia’s Hunterwali (1935).

* The Hindi film periodical Chitrapat, edited by Hrishamcharan Jain, is launched in Delhi; it publishes scripts, fiction serials, poetry and news about international cinema. Bengali film weekly Ruprekha, edited by Jyotishchandra Ghosh, starts. 

* The Urdu novelist Munshi Premchand is hired as a scenarist by Ajanta Cinetone at Rs 8000 per year.