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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.