British Raj Movies

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

The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.

Attractive travelogue filmed in and around Delhi's Qutb complex.

From the arrival of a new viceroy to street markets, this amateur film captures the diversity of life in colonial India.

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

Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.

Millions of Muslims flee to Lahore in the newly created state of Pakistan, prompted by the partition of British India.

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

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

A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata.

A stunning display by Nyishi tribesmen from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India.

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?...

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

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

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

Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.

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

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...

An elephantine spectacle, likely part of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.