Yuav Luag Txhua Tus Ntawm The British Council

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

Fireworks, illuminations and traditional dance all feature in a stunningly opulent royal wedding at Kundla, Gujarat.

Accompany a couple on their visit to a local wildlife park.

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

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

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

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

Grand buildings and missionary work come together in the 1947 Indian tour of construction magnate John W. Laing.

This amateur film gives us a fair idea of the opulent life enjoyed by members of the British government in India.

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

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

Muharram procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings.

Film of local events in Ajmer province including the fair at Pushkar.

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

Two sides of Mysore: down to earth with the field workers and an Indian spectacle for the Maharaja.

Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India.

Anti-Congress propaganda film made by a District Officer in India.

Amateur footage of Delhi and Jaipur, from a military review to an atmospheric torchlit procession - and some armour-plated elephants.

Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.

The timber trade calls on animal help.