British Raj Movies

Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.

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

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...

Tigers in the Himalayan foothills, filmed by famous hunter and conservationist Jim Corbett.

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

Technicolor scenes from an Indian Durbar, held for the Maharaja of Alwar in Rajasthan.

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.

Amateur footage of Delhi and Jaipur, from a military review to an atmospheric torchlit procession - and some armour-plated elephants.

Indian elephants in action as working animals and in hunting.

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

Jaw-dropping acrobatics for royal visitors.

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

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

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.

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

Girl guides on parade at a rally in southern India attended by Olave Baden-Powell.

The timber trade calls on animal help.

Happy farmers, a wedding and some giant cauliflowers...