British Raj Movies

Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.

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

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

Extraordinary footage of prayers in the Punjabi capital.

Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India.

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

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.

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

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

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

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

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

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

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

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

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

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

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

Luscious colour photography of the Taj Mahal and a Mediterranean cruise to Port Said.