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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
A record of a journey made by motor car from Iran, across desert country and alo ng the mountainous roads ...
"HM the King-Emperor opens the Round Table Conference which was attended by [Princes/Premiers?] and leaders of the Indian Empire."
Compilation of footage of Gandhi, in India and in Britain, probably mostly from newsreel sources. 1. Gandhi in a garden ...
Gurkhas - dances, procession, animal beheading. Shillong activities; Khasi archery; Shillong and Khasi hills.
Filmed by an officer in one of ...
Quiet enclosure at Indian Race meeting.
Toll Bar on main road n the Indian countryside near Panvel.
Small Indian boy with his ...
Port Said harbour. Royal Navy sailors visiting the Sphinx. The anchorage at Aden. Bombay bay and harbour. Race course with ...
Race horse meeting at the Bombay Race Course(?). Formal grand wedding or ceremony at a Trade Fair? Procession with Indian ...
"IN INDIA TODAY: GANDHI : STORMY PETREL OF INDIAN POLITICS; COMPLETES 'CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE' MARCH TO BREAK SALT LAWS, UNINTERFERED WITH ...
"India House. H.M. The King, accompanied by the Queen, opens magnificent new home of India in Aldwych." (0.04). HAS of ...
Big game hunting in India.
Young Asian women posing for camera, then older Asian man and family.
Note: "Viceroy's garden + Nairital" scribbled on processing box ...
Detailed exploration of the Red Fort at Agra with close attention to the architectural features. Distant views of the Taj ...
Delhi and Quitab. Detailed scenes of the Red Fort. Humayun Mausoleum, Kwat-Ul-Mosque, Kitb Minar. Lodi Tomb. Views of exterior of ...
Kashmir. Formal gardens of Mogul lakeside palace. Ornate flowers;orchards. Houseboats moored at the lake. Canal trade. Town scape of lake ...
Large social picnics for Europeans carrying on life just as though in England. Bombay waterfront from the sea. Visit by ...
Personal film of Lord Willingdon, Viceroy of India from the early to mid-1930s.
Brief shot of moving steam train. Indian Maharajah ...
A London schoolboy dreams he visits Buckingham Palace, where he makes the King's Christmas pudding from ingredients collected from different ...
Fictionalised documentary of evangelist Mott Keislar and his physician wife in Lahore and how they teach and treat local people. ...
India. (1926?1946?) British man pouring tea by the roadside from a flask, then climbing onto a horse and off trekking, ...
Imperial round table conference on India held at St. James Palace (74ft).
Travelogue films showing indigenous life in the interwar period, filmed by the British traveller, linguist, spy and author ...
Amateur film taken in Sikkim and Nepal.