'''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. * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zubeida|Zubeida]] and [[Nanubhai Vakil]] start Mahalaxmi Cinetone. * First sound features in Oriya [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeta_Bibaha|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.