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"HM the King-Emperor opens the Round Table Conference which was attended by [Princes/Premiers?] and leaders of the Indian Empire."
Biopic of famed Indian lawyer and activist Mahatma Gandhi, whose methods of non-violent protest against the British Empire led to ...
Compilation of footage of Gandhi, in India and in Britain, probably mostly from newsreel sources. 1. Gandhi in a garden ...
The tea-gardens of India and Ceylon.
Aerial view of countryside around the tea-gardens (54). The Kangchenjunga mountain railway is followed on ...
The events in Karachi and in Delhi around Independence Day, 15 August 1947.
On the eve of independence, Jinnah ...
"FLAG WAVING: American women protest in favour of peace" (15). On the steps of a building a crowd of women ...
"OUR TROOPS IN INDIA: PARADE OF THE BOMBAY LIGHT HORSE". A column of cavalry march across a field in long ...
I. Newsreel item on the entry of General Allenby into Jerusalem and the reading of his proclamation, Palestine, ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia, visits east African troops in Rangoon, capital ...
General Sir George Giffard, commander of 11th Army Group, visits 25th Indian Division during a tour of inspection ...
With the Japanese capitulation General Heitaro Kimura and his staff surrender their swords to their British counterparts in ...
Officers, including Lieutenant-General Slim, from the South East Asia Command gather for a conference in the jungle near ...
General Sir George Giffard, Commander-in-Chief 11th Army Group, inspects his forward troops near Tamu on the Indian-Burmese border.
General ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia, visits troops on garrison duty on Labuan ...
General William Slim, General Officer Commanding 14th Army arrives at Imphal airstrip and chats to Air Commodore S F Vincent, ...
American Lieutenant-General Daniel Sultan (Commander of the Burma-India Theatre) presents the Bronze Star to four British soldiers at ...
INTEREST. Kandy, Sri Lanka: a temple set in trees. Pans left to right (69). A gateway with a small boy ...
General Thomas Wynford Rees, commander of 19th Indian Division, and General Montagu Stopford, commander of XXXIII Indian Corps, ...
Members of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) including George Formby, the British music hall artist, arrive to ...
Land clearance for a rubber plantation.
Amateur footage, in black and white and colour, shot and edited by Rosie Newman, of her travels in ...
INTEREST - Travelogue. Scenes of Indian life and architecture.
RL.1 Seas breaking on the rocks at Cape Comorin (58-89); the Afghan ...