Movies: British raj

Early film of a crowded street scene in an unidentified Indian city....

A doctor and party visit the villages of eastern Manipur in India's far north east....

Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar....

Made by an English family living in north India during the heyday of the Raj, this amateur film reveals the grandeur in which middle-class English colonials lived....

Technicolor scenes from an Indian Durbar, held for the Maharaja of Alwar in Rajasthan....

The film explores the tragic fall of feudalism in Bengal during the British Raj. The title of the movie and the story is a reference to the plot simultaneously exploring a platonic relationship between a beautiful, forlorn wife of an aristocrat and a...

Boats and steamers on the mud flats and lakes of the Assam district, India....

Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan....

Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan....

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

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata....

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Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath....

Film of local events in Ajmer province including the fair at Pushkar....

Jaw-dropping acrobatics for royal visitors....

Amateur footage of Delhi and Jaipur, from a military review to an atmospheric torchlit procession - and some armour-plated elephants....

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

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

Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta....

The inauguration of a unit of the Indian Defence Force in Calcutta....