| | 1 | ''''1964: Key Events''' |
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| | 3 | * Nehru dies; Lal Bahadur Shastri becomes prime minister. The Communist Party of India splits, the majority of the rank and file going to the CPI (Marxist). |
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| | 5 | * The split is triggered by the India-China war, but the larger context is the CPSU’s support for the Congress, regarded as an imperialist ally by the CPI’s left wing. |
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| | 7 | * Following a split in the Congress and the imposition of president’s rule in Kerala, 800 CPI(M) cadres are arrested, including A. K. Gopalan, the best known of Kerala’s Marxist leaders. |
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| | 9 | * The indigenously manufactured Vaijayanta tank is the showpiece of the Indian Army’s arsenal. |
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| | 11 | * The National Film Archive of India is founded in Pune under the Information & Broadcasting Ministry. The Film Institute at Adyar, Madras, starts. Report on Indian Cinema for UNESCO by Jerzy Toeplitz, president of FIAF. |
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| | 13 | * He notes the Bombay cinema’s impact on the Hindi language. |
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| | 15 | * First Kashmiri film: Naizraat. |