The British Council Filmes

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

The future Edward VIII opens a durbar and enjoys a day at the races before inspecting the fire brigade in Calcutta.

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

The future Edward VIII enjoys stunning mountain scenery on a visit to the Khyber Pass during his royal tour

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

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

Jaw-dropping acrobatics for royal visitors.

The inauguration of a unit of the Indian Defence Force in Calcutta.

Film showing the Viceregal party entering Delhi on lavishly decorated elephants, as part of the Coronation durbar of 1903.

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

Girl guides on parade at a rally in southern India attended by Olave Baden-Powell.

The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.

Hear the Lama band, see the sacred dances: welcome to Sikkim, in the shadow of the Himalayas.

Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.

Actuality film showing a busy Salvation Army parade in a rural village under the British Raj.

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

A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata.

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

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

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.