British Raj Movies

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

The future Edward VIII enjoys a stately procession and visits the Taj Mahal before meeting senior Indian royalty.

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

The timber trade calls on animal help.

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

Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.

The Taj Mahal and shots of Jalandhar nestle between footage from Canada and Africa.

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

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

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

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

Actuality film showing a busy Salvation Army parade in a rural village under the British Raj.

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

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

Indian elephants in action as working animals and in hunting.

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...

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

Tigers in the Himalayan foothills, filmed by famous hunter and conservationist Jim Corbett.

Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.

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