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There are lots of stories about who introduced playback singing in Hindi Films. Alison Arnold summarized her research on this topic in her Doctoral Thesis. I will be posting extracts from it.
Was it RC Boral?

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Writing in an essay in June 1936.
Quoted in the PhD thesis, Literature and Politics in the Age of Nationalism: The Progressive Writers’ Movement in South Asia, 1932-1956, by,
Talat Ahmed,
Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2006.

Now You Know!
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