British Raj Movies

Jaw-dropping acrobatics for royal visitors.

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

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

Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India.

Romantic, atmospheric travelogue capturing some of northern India’s most iconic places – not least the Taj Mahal.

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

The timber trade calls on animal help.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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