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

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

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

From the arrival of a new viceroy to street markets, this amateur film captures the diversity of life in colonial India.

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

The Mysore Palace shines with 100,000 lights in a dazzling 400-year-old celebration.

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...

Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.

Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

Luscious colour photography of the Taj Mahal and a Mediterranean cruise to Port Said.

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

A doctor and party visit the villages of eastern Manipur in India's far north east.

Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.

Evocative observational scenes of Simla and Lahore, including the gorgeous Shalimar Gardens and Anarkali Bazar.

Amateur film of a road trip through northeastern India, showing traditional dances and a gigantic flower float.

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

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

An intimate insight into the servant culture and lifestyle of the Viceroy of India and family, as they visit Simla (Shimla) and Lahore.

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