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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
Troops of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen making an amphibious landing on the banks of the ...
Scenes of a visit by an Indian Maharajah to an RAF field hospital near Imphal.
The Maharajah arrives by ...
Oceanliner voyage with large number of small children showing how they were kept amused on board. Scenes of unidentified large ...
In Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), British, Indian and French troops mark the first Armistice Day since ...
ACTUALITY. The Governor of Bengal, Lord Lytton, inspects the Governor's Bodyguard in Calcutta.
Main title. The Governor and his party get ...
A survey of the involvement of India's Home Front in the war effort.
An opening sequence of blackout, ARP ...
French troops under General Leclerc arrive in Saigon to take over military responsibility for Indo-China from 20th Indian ...
"ARRIVAL OF MAH H.R.H. JIND (sic). Inspection of the guard of honour" (5). A train arrives and officers in white ...
British, American, Indian and Chinese personnel released from Japanese captivity in Rangoon arrive by hospital ship in Calcutta.
A ...
A battery of the 1st Medium Regiment Royal Artillery in action as support for the beachhead operations of ...
1st Medium Regiment Royal Artillery in action near Myinmu, Burma.
An artillery piece is loaded and fired on Japanese ...
Story of the effect of war on the people of a remote rural area of Bengal in 1942.
A Japanese prisoner of war (POW) is escorted to a POW cage near Imphal by a number of ...
Assam tribal dances taken in Shillong when Lord Mountbatten arrived in 1947.
A rough road in countryside. A pall of smoke rises and debris lies around a XXXIII Indian Corps ammunition dump. ...
Troops of 17th Indian Division seen attacking the village of Pyawbwe, on the road to Rangoon, Burma, and ...
A fictional study of Imperial India seen through the reminiscences of an exiled daughter of a Marajah and an elderly ...
Very short film showing an Avro Anson transport aircraft starting up, taxiing, and in flight, somewhere in India.
Wide shot showing a very large structure built of Bailey bridging sections. Men of the Madras Sappers and Miners heaving ...
INTEREST Travelogue.
A Baluchistani on a hill top surveying the country (51-56); shots of the country (75-87); the Bolan Pass (95-130); ...
Short documentary about Bassein, a fishing village 25 miles north of Bombay on the shores of the Arabian ...
The film celebrates the operations of the Bata shoe company highlighting, in particular, the welfare provided for its ...
The RAF lead a parade in Calcutta (Kolkata) India, mounted to mark the anniversary of the Battle of ...
Aerial and ground footage of operations by RAF Bristol Beaufighter fighter-bombers based at Chiringa, Bengal Province, India (Bangladesh).
Aerial ...