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  1. Reel Histories: The Film and Oral History Collections of the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge (2012)

    Subject
    Film studies; History

    Talk given by Dr Kevin Greenbank at the Royal Asiatic Society, South London, illustrated with film clips.

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  2. Last Days of the Raj (2007)

    Subject
    History

    This drama-documentary, filmed entirely on location in India, charts the events of six traumatic months in 1947 that saw the end of the British Raj. Lord Louis Mountbatten arrived in India in March 1947 as...

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  3. India: The Struggle for Independence (2000 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £29.95 (inc VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the complex mix of political, historical, cultural and military issues comprising the history of India. Includes location footage, archive film, period images, and comment and analysis from Dr David...

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  4. India: Ruins of the Raj (1990 Video)

    Producer
    Sam Collyns
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 45 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In the wake of cast violence, religious intolerance and politica feuding, BBC Dehli correspondent Mark Tully and former Indian Prime Minister Chandras Shekar examine the failure of Indian democracy to...

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  5. Raj Gonds: Reflections in a Peacock Crown (1982 Film)

    Director
    Chris Curling; Peter Loizos
    Producer
    Chris Curling; Melissa Llewelyn-Davies
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The Raj Gonds, once rich and powerful rulers of a large area of central India, now live as a tribal group, outside the mainstream of Indian society, on lands rented to them by non-Gond landlords. Once a...

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  6. Films from the Raj (1978 Film)

    Producer
    Mary Thatcher; Victoria Wegg-Prosser
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Compiled from amateur films held by the archive in the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge. Designed to illustrate facets of social, domestic and administrative life in India from unique...

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  7. Shakespeare Wallah (1965 Film)

    Director
    James Ivory
    Producer
    Ismail Merchant
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 115 minutes), £14.99

    Feature film. An English troupe of actors tour post-Raj India staging performances of Shakespeare to dwindling audiences as British dominance of, and interest in, British culture fades. The film is an ironic...

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  8. Felicity Kendal’s Indian Shakespeare Quest (Television)

    Director
    Patrick McGrady

    Television documentary. Actress Felicity Kendal started her stage career in India where her parents ran an eccentric touring Shakespeare company called Shakespeareana. Now she returns to India to investigate...

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