British Raj Movies

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

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

Amateur shots of pilgrims and temples at Haridwar, followed by rural scenes and the Gorrie family at home.

Life on the road in India, showing the traffic, people and animals.

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

A Christian take on 'Edenless' India, where heathens are unafraid of snakes, and build 'interesting' temples to their gods.

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

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

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

The timber trade calls on animal help.

Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.

Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.

Military occasions around India and Pakistan, featuring the Khyber Pass, Srinagar, Rawalpindi and Peshawar.

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

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

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

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

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

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

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