British Raj Movies

Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948. Why was he killed and what events occurred before and after his murder?...

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

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

A doctor and party visit the villages of eastern Manipur in India's far north east.

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

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.

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

Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

Amateur film of the passage to India - complete with guest appearance by Gandhi.

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

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

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

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

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.

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

Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India.

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

Millions of Muslims flee to Lahore in the newly created state of Pakistan, prompted by the partition of British India.

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