"HM the King-Emperor opens the Round Table Conference which was attended by [Princes/Premiers?] and leaders of the Indian Empire."

Biopic of famed Indian lawyer and activist Mahatma Gandhi, whose methods of non-violent protest against the British Empire led to ...

Compilation of footage of Gandhi, in India and in Britain, probably mostly from newsreel sources. 1. Gandhi in a garden ...

The tea-gardens of India and Ceylon.

Aerial view of countryside around the tea-gardens (54). The Kangchenjunga mountain railway is followed on ...

The events in Karachi and in Delhi around Independence Day, 15 August 1947.

On the eve of independence, Jinnah ...

"FLAG WAVING: American women protest in favour of peace" (15). On the steps of a building a crowd of women ...

"OUR TROOPS IN INDIA: PARADE OF THE BOMBAY LIGHT HORSE". A column of cavalry march across a field in long ...

I. Newsreel item on the entry of General Allenby into Jerusalem and the reading of his proclamation, Palestine, ...

Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia, visits east African troops in Rangoon, capital ...

General Sir George Giffard, commander of 11th Army Group, visits 25th Indian Division during a tour of inspection ...

With the Japanese capitulation General Heitaro Kimura and his staff surrender their swords to their British counterparts in ...

With the Japanese capitulation General Heitaro Kimura and his staff surrender their swords to their British counterparts in ...

Officers, including Lieutenant-General Slim, from the South East Asia Command gather for a conference in the jungle near ...

General Sir George Giffard, Commander-in-Chief 11th Army Group, inspects his forward troops near Tamu on the Indian-Burmese border.

General ...

Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia, visits troops on garrison duty on Labuan ...

General William Slim, General Officer Commanding 14th Army arrives at Imphal airstrip and chats to Air Commodore S F Vincent, ...

American Lieutenant-General Daniel Sultan (Commander of the Burma-India Theatre) presents the Bronze Star to four British soldiers at ...

INTEREST. Kandy, Sri Lanka: a temple set in trees. Pans left to right (69). A gateway with a small boy ...

General Thomas Wynford Rees, commander of 19th Indian Division, and General Montagu Stopford, commander of XXXIII Indian Corps, ...

Members of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) including George Formby, the British music hall artist, arrive to ...

Land clearance for a rubber plantation.

Amateur footage, in black and white and colour, shot and edited by Rosie Newman, of her travels in ...

INTEREST - Travelogue. Scenes of Indian life and architecture.

RL.1 Seas breaking on the rocks at Cape Comorin (58-89); the Afghan ...

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

Main title and credit (15). ...

A week before the handover of responsibility for Burma from military to civil administration, a parade is held ...

A week before the handover of responsibility for Burma from military to civil administration, a parade is held ...

A week before the handover of responsibility for Burma from military to civil administration, a parade is held ...

The newly returned Governor of Burma, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, attends a civic reception in Rangoon and makes a ...

The newly returned Governor of Burma, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, attends a civic reception in Rangoon and makes a ...

Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the recently returned Governor of Burma, attends a dragon dance in the Chinese quarter of ...

Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the recently returned Governor of Burma, attends races at Kyaikasan racecourse in Rangoon.

Dorman-Smith with a ...

Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the recently returned Governor of Burma, receives a civic welcome in Rangoon.

Series of severely underlit ...

Dorman-Smith's car arrives at Rangoon Cathedral and he gets out. Lady Dorman-Smith with the Rt Rev the Lord Bishop of ...

Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the pre-war Governor of Burma, returns to Government House, Rangoon, after years of government-in-exile.

Wide shot ...

Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the pre-war Governor of Burma, returns to Government House, Rangoon, after years of government-in-exile.

View looking ...

Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the pre-war Governor of Burma, returns to Government House, Rangoon, after years of government-in-exile.

Fairly dark ...

Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the pre-war Governor of Burma, returns to Government House, Rangoon, after years of government-in-exile.

Guards lining ...

Amateur film of colonial India.

The start of a hunt, with elephants and beaters (3); view from an elephant howdah (16). ...

A tour made by rail and road to India, Burma and Sikkim, by members of the Grand Lodge of the ...

Aerial footage of RAF Hawker Hurricane ground attack and supply operations in and around Mandalay, Burma.

Aerial footage; the ...

Scenes of RAF 211 Squadron Bristol Beaufighter ground attack aircraft being serviced before mounting attacks on enemy positions ...

RAF 42 Squadron Hawker Hurricanes are used to attack ground targets, drop parachute supply canisters and distribute leaflets ...

Based on a poem by Rudyard Kipling, GUNGA DIN is a fictional tale set in British India during the Thuggee ...

During the night Royal Artillery troops landed on a small island near Ru-Ywa, Burma, and manhandled their 5.5 ...

Gurkhas - dances, procession, animal beheading. Shillong activities; Khasi archery; Shillong and Khasi hills.

Filmed by an officer in one of ...

Gurkha infantry of 1st Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles, 63rd Brigade, 17th Indian Division, seen entering the town of ...