British Raj Movies

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

A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata.

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

Indian high society enjoy themselves at a Calcutta garden party held to welcome the new Viceroy, Lord Irwin.

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

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

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

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

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.

Actuality film showing a busy Salvation Army parade in a rural village under the British Raj.

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

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

Jaw-dropping acrobatics for royal visitors.

Extraordinary footage of prayers in the Punjabi capital.

The timber trade calls on animal help.

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...

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

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

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.