British Raj Movies

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

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

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe.

The thronging streets of Chennai in festive mood are captured by this lively amateur film.

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

The race is on - for the Viceroy's Cup.

Amateur shots of pilgrims and temples at Haridwar, followed by rural scenes and the Gorrie family at home.

This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an...

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

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

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

Anti-Congress propaganda film made by a District Officer in India.

Amateur footage of the devastation caused by one of South Asia's worst earthquakes.