The British Council Movies

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

The future Edward VIII enjoys a stately procession and visits the Taj Mahal before meeting senior Indian royalty.

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

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

Scenes from a lavish pageant held during the royal visit to India, celebrating King George V’s coronation.

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

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

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

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

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

Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe.

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

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

Jaw-dropping acrobatics for royal visitors.

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

An elephantine spectacle, likely part of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.

Richly detailed record of the Prince of Wales' Indian tour.

Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.

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

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