Movies: British raj

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

This amateur film gives us a fair idea of the opulent life enjoyed by members of the British government in India....

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

Romantic, atmospheric travelogue capturing some of northern India’s most iconic places – not least the Taj Mahal....

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

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

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

What’s the hidden message inside this intriguing film, shot at a Salvation Army establishment in western India?...

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

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

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

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

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

A stunning display by Nyishi tribesmen from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India....

An intimate insight into the servant culture and lifestyle of the Viceroy of India and family, as they visit Simla (Shimla) and Lahore....

The thronging streets of Chennai in festive mood are captured by this lively amateur film....

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

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 colonials lived....

The timber trade calls on animal help....

Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948. Why was he killed and what events occurred before and after his murder? This documentary shows how India was dogged by nationalism and religious conflict on its path to indepe...