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Rare stencil-coloured images of early 20th century Delhi during a Muslim festival.

Early film of a crowded street scene in an unidentified Indian city.

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

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.

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

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

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.

Extraordinary footage of prayers in the Punjabi capital.

A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.

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

The race is on - for the Viceroy's Cup.

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

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

A Christian take on 'Edenless' India, where heathens are unafraid of snakes, and build 'interesting' temples to their gods.

Amateur footage of the devastation caused by one of South Asia's worst earthquakes.