'''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.