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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.
Main title and credit (15). ...