Movies: British raj

The future Edward VIII enjoys receptions, playing polo and hunting tigers on his royal tour....

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

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal....

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

Extraordinary footage of prayers in the Punjabi capital....

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

Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath....

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

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

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....

Evocative observational scenes of Simla and Lahore, including the gorgeous Shalimar Gardens and Anarkali Bazar....

Anti-Congress propaganda film made by a District Officer in India....

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata....

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

Jaw-dropping acrobatics for royal visitors....

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

Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan....