British Raj Movies

A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata.

Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan.

The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.

Girl guides on parade at a rally in southern India attended by Olave Baden-Powell.

Amateur film featuring government buildings in Delhi, a shooting party in Malakand and winter in Abbottabad.

Accompany a couple on their visit to a local wildlife park.

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.

A Christian take on 'Edenless' India, where heathens are unafraid of snakes, and build 'interesting' temples to their gods.

Dignitaries including the Nizam of Hyderabad gather to celebrate the Durbar in honour of George V, who arrives by boat in Bombay.

Extraordinary footage of prayers in the Punjabi capital.

A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.

Film showing the Viceregal party entering Delhi on lavishly decorated elephants, as part of the Coronation durbar of 1903.

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948. Why was he killed and what events occurred before and after his murder?...

Richly detailed amateur ethnographic film on the agrarian economy and society in rural Punjab.

The British government have taken over there rule in a deserted region in India. But some of the people there strive for freedom; one of those brave...

Lady Pamela Lytton, wife of the Governor of Bengal, visits the grand marble Victoria Memorial in Calcutta.

The Maharajah of Kapurthala and guests travel on elephants and men catch fish on the River Bias.