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Historical Event on 8/17/1932
V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/26/1841 | Bombay Gazette begins publishing on silk. |
| 6/29/1908 | Pratapsing Gaekwad, Prince of Baroda, was born. |
| 2/15/1976 | The Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering (CIAE) was established at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi. |
| 2/25/1897 | A. Vedaratnam, freedom fighter, nationalist and leader, was born in an orthodox Saiva Vellala community. |
| 9/5/1967 | Central Hindi Committee constituted under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister. |
| 1/24/1924 | Karpoori Thakur ""Jan Nayak"", freedom fighter, teacher and national president of Samyukta Socialist Party, was born in village Samastipur, District Bihar. |
| 5/18/1912 | Narayan Govind Chitre, with the help of R. P. Tipnis and Cameraman Johnson, produced a 8000 ft. long theatrical film 'Pundalik', which was directed by Ramchandra Torney alias Dada Saheb Torne. The entire film was shot in a theatre at Mangaldas Wadi in Bombay, where the Sangit Mandali, a professional theatre group, was performing a play 'Pundalik'. The film was released on May, 18 in the Coronation Cinematograph at Girgaum, Bombay. |
| 10/18/1925 | Narayandatt Tiwar, former Central minister and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was born. |
| 3/29/1989 | Central Institute of Fisheries Education gets the distinction of becoming the first Fisheries University in India. |
| 1/4/1932 | Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants. |
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