Scenes from a lavish pageant held during the royal visit to India, celebrating King George V’s coronation.

A film produced to celebrate the coronation of George V as King-Emperor at the Imperial Durbar of 1911.

A rendition of the traditional English folksong ‘Widdicombe Fair’, accompanied by drawings.

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

Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.

The Taj Mahal and shots of Jalandhar nestle between footage from Canada and Africa.

An astonishing English tourist’s view of street life in pre-partition Srinagar and Kashmir.

Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.

This official travelogue of a royal tour follows the Prince on a series of regimental displays and a tiger hunt.

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

The Governor of Bengal and family - on and off duty.

This travelogue takes in some of the most important landmarks of Islamic power in India.

Amateur film featuring government buildings in Delhi, a shooting party in Malakand and winter in Abbottabad.

Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe.

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

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...

A stunning display by Nyishi tribesmen from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India.

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