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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.

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

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

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

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

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

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

Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.

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

Arresting early film images of both northern India and central and south western China.

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