'''1948: Key Events'''

* Gandhi is assassinated by an RSS member. 

* Limited India-Pakistan war over Kashmir, as India complains to the UN Security Council. 

* The Indian Army occupies Hyderabad, forcing the Nizam to surrender. 

* 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. 

* The Press Trust of India is formed as a news agency under an agreement with Reuter and the Indian & Eastern Newspaper Society. 

* The Progressive Artists Group, formed in 1947 in Bombay, has its first show. 

* Sombhu Mitra starts the theatre group Bohurupee. 

* The Atomic Energy Act is passed.

* Uday Shankar makes his nationalist dance spectacular Kalpana; 

* S. S. Vasan’s Chandralekha is the first Madras production to become an all-India hit; both films are made at the Gemini Studio. 

* Bhavnani’s Ajit is made on 16mm Kodachrome and blown up to 35mm in the USA. 

* Nirmala is the first Malayalam film made in Kerala. 

* Raj Kapoor starts his R. K. Films, building his studio in 1950. 

* Nehru announces a freeze on the construction of movie theatres. 

* Gour Chattopadhyay initiates the Bengali film monthly Chitrabani, the most reliable record of 40s-50s Bengali cinema together with Rupamancha.