The Kumbh Mela is a great roving Hindu spiritual festival that has moved around India for more than four thousand years, erecting temporary cities along the Ganges River.
This film describes the nature and impact of major religions in India, artistic monuments and contributions of each dynasty and cultural development of the people in different regions of the vast subcontinent.
The race is on - for the Viceroy's Cup.
Lady Pamela Lytton, wife of the Governor of Bengal, visits the grand marble Victoria Memorial in Calcutta.
The timber trade calls on animal help.
Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan.
Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.
Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.
Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.
The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.
Short documentary on India
An astonishing English tourist’s view of street life in pre-partition Srinagar and Kashmir.
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
Indian high society enjoy themselves at a Calcutta garden party held to welcome the new Viceroy, Lord Irwin.
Boats and steamers on the mud flats and lakes of the Assam district, India.
This amateur film gives us a fair idea of the opulent life enjoyed by members of the British government in India.
Amateur footage of Delhi and Jaipur, from a military review to an atmospheric torchlit procession - and some armour-plated elephants.
Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.
Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India.
Anti-Congress propaganda film made by a District Officer in India.