British Raj Movies

Jaw-dropping acrobatics for royal visitors.

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

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

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

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

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

What’s the hidden message inside this intriguing film, shot at a Salvation Army establishment in western India?

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

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

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

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

Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.

Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.

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