FrontLine - 2022-08-26

• EDITOR’S NOTE
• Maharashtr­a
• Maharaja Hari Singh signs Instrument of Accession
• 1947 Devadasi Abolition Act
• 1949 Constituen­t Assembly adopts Constituti­on
• 1949 Lata Mangeshkar arrives as the voice of India
• 1950 India’s first IIT
• 1950 Freedom of the press
• 1951 First Asian Games
• 1953 Andha Yug and Theatre of Roots
• 1954 The three Akademis
• 1956 Voice from the sky
• 1959 A signal developmen­t
• 1959 Naya Theatre
• 1959 Panchayati Raj begins in Nagaur, Rajasthan
• 1960 FTII in Pune
• 1962 Alkazi helms NSD
• 1963 First rocket launch
• 1964 Karnad’s satire on Nehruvian era
• 1967 First regional party to form government
• 1967 Naxalbari movement
• 1973 Kesavanand­a Bharati case
• 1969 Banks nationalis­ed
• 1973 Janam is formed
• 1974 JP Movement
• 1974 Smiling Buddha
• 1979 The first PIL petition
• Festival of India
• 1983 Small car, big dreams
• 1984 P.T. Usha’s missed medal
• 1984 Hanging of Maqbool Bhat
• 1984 The first TV soap
• 1984 Kanshi Ram launches Bahujan Samaj Party
• 1985 Narmada Bachao Andolan
• 1985 Assam Accord
• 1985 Shah Bano case
• 1989 Binaca Geetmala
• 1990 Advani’s rath yatra
• 1990 Anti-mandal agitation and identity politics
• 1992 Harshad Mehta scam
• 1991 Coming of satellite television
• 2000 Irom Sharmila begins fast
• 2000 Vishy and the chess revolution
• 2003 First medal in World Athletics
• 2012 Mary Kom
• 2007 Nandigram protest
• Rainbow victory
• 2019 Divide and rule in J&K
• 2020 Farmers take the country by storm
• A violent birth
• Scripting a cultural continuum
• Speaking in tongues

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