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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
Amateur film showing a procession of elephants in silver-plated armour in Jaipur; women spinning; the road to Amber; scenes of ...
No main title. A long procession of elephants slowly passes along a road lined with soldiers. Probably part of the ...
Amateur film shot by Captain Clifford Williams (Sikh Regiment) when a junior staff officer with the Punjab Boundary ...
Life in an agricultural village in the Punjab and the daily round.
Amateur film. Europeans and Indians at Puri, India.
Amateur film showing the aftermath of the 1935 Quetta earthquake.
"The Quetta Earthquake. May 31st 1935. 3.3. A.M.". "Dawn: The ...
Scenes of Bristol Beaufighter Mk X's of RAF 27 Squadron operating from Chiringa airfield, India.
View of runway with ...
Indians and Britons compete at an inter-Service athletics meeting, hosted by the RAF at Charbatia, north of Cuttack, ...
Scenes of RAF airmen preparing for a Bristol Beaufighter sortie over Burma.
Airborne footage of flight over coastal areas ...
After monsoon weather washes away an RAF church five days before a special Thanksgiving Service, a new church ...
The RAF demonstrates close support techniques in cooperation with a British armoured unit.
Wide shot of an open plain ...
Footage of RAF Hawker Hurricane pilots preparing for an attack on Japanese positions on the Imphal front, India.
Aerial ...
Reel 1: Men gathered around sketch map. Close-up with finger pointing out various locations. A Burmese instructor in front of ...
Reel 1: Supermarine Spitfire with control tower in background. Hawker Hurricanes with propellors spinning before taxiing away past camera. Douglas ...
Ballot papers are delivered by air to Calcutta, India, for distribution to RAF bases before the 1945 General ...
Reel 1: Docks on the Hooghly River, Calcutta; river craft are unloaded. Two men stand on top of a lorry ...
Scenes of RAF anti-mosquito operations around Imphal, India.
Three Hawker Hurricanes overhead spraying kerosene and DDT. Shot of two ...
Air Commodore Mellersh RAF, Air Commander Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command and Air Vice Marshal Stevens of ...
Lieutenant-General W J Slim leads a flag unfurling ceremony at inside Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma, after British troops ...
An experimental Type B Ramp Cargo Lighter (RCL) is assembled and launched, with some difficulty, on the River ...
Amateur film showing Sir Hugh Stephenson, local scenes in Patna and Ranchi districts of India. Scenes include; seeing the Governor, ...
In Rangoon, capital of Burma, Indian other ranks (IORs) of 60 Indian Workshop Company of the Indian Electrical ...
Amateur film. Manipuri sword dance; old maharajah's palace; Bone ceremony; Rathjatra procession.