British Raj Movies

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

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

Indian elephants in action as working animals and in hunting.

The timber trade calls on animal help.

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

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

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

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

Amateur film featuring government buildings in Delhi, a shooting party in Malakand and winter in Abbottabad.

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

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

Extraordinary footage of prayers in the Punjabi capital.

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

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

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

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

Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India.

A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.

The inauguration of a unit of the Indian Defence Force in Calcutta.

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