| | 1 | '''1948: Key Events''' |
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| | 3 | * Gandhi is assassinated by an RSS member. |
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| | 5 | * Limited India-Pakistan war over Kashmir, as India complains to the UN Security Council. |
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| | 7 | * The Indian Army occupies Hyderabad, forcing the Nizam to surrender. |
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| | 9 | * The CPI, which had fought the Razakars, refuses to call off the Telangana insurrection, raising hopes of spearheading a nationwide revolution. The peasantry fights the army until the insurrection is called off in 1951. |
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| | 11 | * The Press Trust of India is formed as a news agency under an agreement with Reuter and the Indian & Eastern Newspaper Society. |
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| | 13 | * The Progressive Artists Group, formed in 1947 in Bombay, has its first show. |
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| | 15 | * Sombhu Mitra starts the theatre group Bohurupee. |
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| | 17 | * The Atomic Energy Act is passed. |
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| | 19 | * Uday Shankar makes his nationalist dance spectacular Kalpana; |
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| | 21 | * S. S. Vasan’s Chandralekha is the first Madras production to become an all-India hit; both films are made at the Gemini Studio. |
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| | 23 | * Bhavnani’s Ajit is made on 16mm Kodachrome and blown up to 35mm in the USA. |
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| | 25 | * Nirmala is the first Malayalam film made in Kerala. |
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| | 27 | * Raj Kapoor starts his R. K. Films, building his studio in 1950. |
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| | 29 | * Nehru announces a freeze on the construction of movie theatres. |
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| | 31 | * Gour Chattopadhyay initiates the Bengali film monthly Chitrabani, the most reliable record of 40s-50s Bengali cinema together with Rupamancha. |