British Raj Movies

Amateur film of a road trip through northeastern India, showing traditional dances and a gigantic flower float.

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

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

Indian elephants in action as working animals and in hunting.

Made by an English family living in north India during the heyday of the Raj, this amateur film reveals the grandeur in which middle-class English...

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

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

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

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

This amateur film gives us a fair idea of the opulent life enjoyed by members of the British government in India.

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

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

Happy farmers, a wedding and some giant cauliflowers...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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