British Raj Movies

Amateur film of a road trip through northeastern India, showing traditional dances and a gigantic flower float.

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...

A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata.

Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.

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

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

Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.

Rare stencil-coloured images of early 20th century Delhi during a Muslim festival.

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

Indian elephants in action as working animals and in hunting.

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

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

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

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.

Dignitaries including the Nizam of Hyderabad gather to celebrate the Durbar in honour of George V, who arrives by boat in Bombay.

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

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

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