British Raj Movies

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

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

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

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

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

The future Edward VIII enjoys receptions, playing polo and hunting tigers on his royal tour.

The British government have taken over there rule in a deserted region in India. But some of the people there strive for freedom; one of those brave...

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

Richly detailed record of the Prince of Wales' Indian tour.

Scenes from a lavish pageant held during the royal visit to India, celebrating King George V’s coronation.

A film produced to celebrate the coronation of George V as King-Emperor at the Imperial Durbar of 1911.

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.

Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe.

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

Indian elephants in action as working animals and in hunting.

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

The timber trade calls on animal help.

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

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