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Part 3: in March 1977, after the end of the state of emergency, the Congress Party was defeated in the elections and the Janata Party came to power. Migrant labourers conclude that nothing has changed for them.
Seven programmes looking at how European culture intersects with other cultures. Separate programmes show points of intersction with) 1) the East, 2) Egypt, 3) India, 4) China; and points of contact with 5)...
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...
Follows a South Indian Brahman, an accountant in an engineering firm, as he and his family perform the traditional ancestor rites at Kashi (Benares). Examines the living tradition of Orthodox Hinduism in the...
Focuses on the life of one man, his two wives and seven children in order to portray the yearly cycle of the Ho people, a secluded tribe of the Mundari-speaking group living in the southern part of Bihar...
Deals with the way in which one man, Shripal, views his life as a city man whose kinship ties and duties still bind him to his natal village. Shripal now works in a New Delhi cloth factory, 400 miles west of...
A compilation of material from the personal film collection of the second Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy and Governor-General of India between 1936 and 1943. Scenes show aspects of the Viceroy’s life and...
Ramdev, a medieval martial hero and saint of western India, has become the focus of a miracle cult spread by a growing body of folk music. The film follows a group of Hindus on pilgrimage from Bombay to...
Shows how Indian peasants are forming co-operatives, and working for the common good, building dams for irrigation, introducing new farming methods, and reducing the power of the money lenders.
A series of seven films comparing family life in five different locations. The communities selected are Andheri in the foothills of the Himalayas; Buk in the western highlands of New Guinea; Shakawe on the...
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