Movies: British raj

Rare stencil-coloured images of early 20th century Delhi during a Muslim festival....

Amateur footage of Delhi and Jaipur, from a military review to an atmospheric torchlit procession - and some armour-plated elephants....

Dignitaries including the Nizam of Hyderabad gather to celebrate the Durbar in honour of George V, who arrives by boat in Bombay....

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal....

Indian elephants in action as working animals and in hunting....

Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar....

Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan....

The thronging streets of Chennai in festive mood are captured by this lively amateur film....

Attractive travelogue filmed in and around Delhi's Qutb complex....

Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry....

The inauguration of a unit of the Indian Defence Force in Calcutta....

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour....

Boats and steamers on the mud flats and lakes of the Assam district, India....

Anti-Congress propaganda film made by a District Officer in India....

Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath....

Salvation Army General Commissioner Edward Higgins features in the this film of a brass band parade through a village....

What’s the hidden message inside this intriguing film, shot at a Salvation Army establishment in western India?...

Made by an English family living in north India during the heyday of the Raj, this amateur film reveals the grandeur in which middle-class English colonials lived....

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata....

Girl guides on parade at a rally in southern India attended by Olave Baden-Powell....