British Raj Movies

The Mysore Palace shines with 100,000 lights in a dazzling 400-year-old celebration.

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

Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.

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

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

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.

Salvation Army General Commissioner Edward Higgins features in the this film of a brass band parade through a village.