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

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

A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata.

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

Lady Pamela Lytton, wife of the Governor of Bengal, visits the grand marble Victoria Memorial in Calcutta.

Film showing the Viceregal party entering Delhi on lavishly decorated elephants, as part of the Coronation durbar of 1903.

Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948. Why was he killed and what events occurred before and after his murder?...

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

The timber trade calls on animal help.

Richly detailed record of the Prince of Wales' Indian tour.

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

The race is on - for the Viceroy's Cup.

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

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

Millions of Muslims flee to Lahore in the newly created state of Pakistan, prompted by the partition of British India.

Richly detailed amateur ethnographic film on the agrarian economy and society in rural Punjab.