British Raj Movies

Evocative observational scenes of Simla and Lahore, including the gorgeous Shalimar Gardens and Anarkali Bazar.

Film showing the Viceregal party entering Delhi on lavishly decorated elephants, as part of the Coronation durbar of 1903.

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.

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.

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

The Governor of Bengal and family - on and off duty.

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

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

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

Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.

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

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

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

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

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

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

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

The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.

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