British Raj Movies

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

Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.

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

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.

Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.

Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.

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

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

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...

The Mysore Palace shines with 100,000 lights in a dazzling 400-year-old celebration.

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

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

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

Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India.

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

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

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

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

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

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