| | 1 | ''1950: Key Events''' |
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| | 3 | * India declares itself a sovereign democratic republic (26 January): population 350 million. The Republic is elected member of the UN Security Council for two years. |
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| | 5 | * The Assam earthquake (1 August). |
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| | 7 | * The Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, starts; ten years later, it becomes the pre-eminent centre for contemporary Indian art. |
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| | 9 | * Jean Renoir and Satyajit Ray meet on the shoot of The River in Bengal. |
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| | 11 | * Nemai Ghosh makes Chinnamul in Calcutta. |
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| | 13 | * The celebrated Tamil film Ezhai Padum Padu establishes Ramnoth, Nagaiah and Arudra. |
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| | 15 | * C. R. Subburaman, Samudrala Raghavacharya, Vedantam Raghavaiah and others start the Vinoda Studio. |
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| | 17 | * Vijaya Pictures starts with Shavukaru. |
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| | 19 | * The Pakistan government levies a tax of Re 1 per foot on all imported Indian films. |