British Raj Movies

Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.

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

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

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

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.

Extraordinary footage of prayers in the Punjabi capital.

A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.

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

The timber trade calls on animal help.

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.

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

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

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...

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

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

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.

Jaw-dropping acrobatics for royal visitors.