West and Central India

A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour by 'envoy of the Raj' Clarmont Skrine.

Footage shot during an intrepid hunting trip in India

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

Arresting early film images of both northern India and central and south western China.

This collection of amateur shots features some of the most important landmarks of Islamic power in India

Life and death in the trading town of Mirzapur, where the river Ganges meets the highland ranges of India

The future Edward VIII visits his Empire, with Indian royalty, elephants, palaces and temples.

The future Edward VIII visits Malakand, Kapurthala and opens the Royal Military College at Dehra Dun

The future Edward VIII enjoys a stately procession and visits the Taj Mahal before meeting senior Indian royalty

The future Edward VIII enjoys receptions, playing polo and hunting tigers on his royal tour

Richly detailed record of the Prince of Wales' Indian tour, 1921-22.

Amateur shots of pilgrims and temples at Haridwar, followed by rural scenes and the Gorrie family at home.

Botanical gardens in Bombay (now Mumbai) plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta (now Kolkata) as they were in 1913.

Sixty years after the event, this travelogue indicates the continued potency of the Indian Mutiny to the British in India.

Trek in the Central Himalaya, Uttarakhand. On foot, no pack animals for best part of a month.

Fireman attend to the smouldering ruins of a major cloth market fire in Bombay, now Mumbai.

Happy farmers, a wedding and some giant cauliflowers...

Salvation Army officials are given a welcoming salute on a visit to a girls' school in Gujurat, western India

From Sir Conrad Corfield's collection, this film shows scenery around Simla, wrestling and a visit by the Maharajah Kumar.

Cotton, rice and tea, mountain railways, elephants and buffalo: India’s life, landscape and people through Western eyes.

Newsreel capturing the final leg of Mahatma Gandhi’s epic 24-day march through Gujarat to break the colonial salt laws.

Grand buildings and missionary work come together in the 1947 Indian tour of construction magnate John W. Laing.

Fireworks, illuminations and traditional dance all feature in a stunningly opulent royal wedding at Kundla, Gujarat

Sir Sefton Brancker starts on an ambitious 14,000 mile trip to Bombay (now Mumbai)

This travelogue follows hunters in the Gir forest, capturing the titular fight and the gruesome aftermath.

Indian travelogue featuring the famous sights and rural life, from Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin) to the Khyber Pass.

Indian soldiers in Bombay in October 1914 en route to German East Africa (now Tanzania)

“Hello Wolverhampton”. British troops in Bombay send poignant messages to their families back home

Amateur footage of a tour of Kutch, Gujarat, as guests of the Maharajah

The Taj Mahal and shots of Jalandhar nestle between footage from Canada and Africa in this intriguing film compilation

Wonder at the beauty, splendour and grace of the Taj Mahal, erected in 1630 by the Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan

Peppy report on India's first national gathering of visually-impaired girl guides.

Home movie snapshots of street life in Rajasthan, courtesy of Colonel George Craster