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Death of Lord Ypres

Date released

25 May 1925

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1479

NoS ID

079992

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: The famous Field-Marshal, who commanded the British Expeditionary Force at the beginning of the War, passed away at Deal Caste. View of Lord Ypres posing for camera.

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Principles of Caste (1982 Film)

Director

Tom Selwyn

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Analyses the religious principles behind the caste system and how these work in a Hindi marriage ceremony. Through an interview with an untouchable, and discussion with people working in various occupations,...

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Ek Duuje Ke Liye (1981 Film)

aka: Made for Each Other

Director

K. Balachander

Producer

L.V. Prasad

Feature film. A version of Romeo and Juliet. Vaasu, a South Indian and Sapna, a North Indian, fall in love but are kept apart by the prejudices of caste and language which their families maintain.

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Moraji Desai visits Southall in London (1978)

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop

Moraji Desai, Prime Minister of India, visits Southall in London. He is greeted by crowds, with jeers and shouts of protest. John Armstrong reports on the reasons for his hostile reception, which are given...

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Bollywood's India

Date

24 Aug 2016, 10:03

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Bollywood's India: Hindi Cinema as a Guide to Contemporary India by Rachel Dwyer (Reaktion Books, 2014), 296 pages, ISBN: 978-1780232638 (paperback), £17.95 About the reviewer: Dr Deimantas...

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(Untitled record)

Date released

12 Oct 1969

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

69/83

NoS ID

113812

Story no

2 / 7

Extras

1 film clip

The high and the mighty, together with members of every caste gathered at the Gandhi Memorial on the 100th Anniversary of the great man’s birth to pay homage to his memory.

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Wages of Action, The: Religion in a Hindu Village (1988 Video)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

Religious studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

Looks at a rage of Hindu activities in a North India village: rituals performed by different castes, an exorcism sequence, a wedding ritual, a Sattya Narain puja, a pilgrimage to the Ganges, and a variety of...

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News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Coconut Day Festival in Bombay

Date released

5 Sep 1938

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

483

NoS ID

009177

Story no

7 / 14

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Coconut Day in Bombay. SHOTLIST: In Bombay the festival of "Nareli Purnima" is held. The thousands of natives go down to the beach where they are washed. They then pray to the sun-god...

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Untouchable? (2000)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

VHS (PAL, 24 minutes), £30.00

Veerasamy lives in a small village in southern India where all the inhabiants are dalits - outcasts or ‘untouchables’ as they’re known in India. But even among the dalits, there are divisions, and...

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (2001)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 96 minutes), $9.94

An American television adaptation of the book by poet Maya Angelou of her memories of the hardships, private joys and public pleasures of growing up in the Depression-era South. Ostracized by the social and...

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