5th Calcutta Battalion: Presentation of Colours by H.E. The Viceroy

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

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

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

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

Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.

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

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

Boats and steamers on the mud flats and lakes of the Assam district, India.

Indian high society enjoy themselves at a Calcutta garden party held to welcome the new Viceroy, Lord Irwin.

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

Muharram procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings.

Lord Louis Mountbatten arrives in India in March 1947 as Britain's Last Viceroy. He is committed to transfer administrative and authoritative power...