British Raj Movies

Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.

Salvation Army General Commissioner Edward Higgins features in the this film of a brass band parade through a village.

A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.

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

Actuality film showing a busy Salvation Army parade in a rural village under the British Raj.

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

Amateur film of the passage to India - complete with guest appearance by Gandhi.

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Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.

Extraordinary footage of prayers in the Punjabi capital.

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

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.

Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry.

Indian high society enjoy themselves at a Calcutta garden party held to welcome the new Viceroy, Lord Irwin.

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

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

Documentary detailing a farmer’s visit to the market in Rawalpindi.