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  1. Before the Monsoon (3 Parts) (1979 Video)

    Director
    Michael Grigsby
    Producer
    Karin Magid
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 51, 53, 37 min.

    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.

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  2. Points of Intersection (1979 Film)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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)...

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  3. 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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  4. Indian Pilgrimage, An: Kashi (1976 Film)

    Director
    Mira Reym Binford; Michael Camerini
    Producer
    Mira Reym Binford; Michael Camerini
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  5. Ho, The: People of the Rice Pot (1975 Film)

    Director
    Michael Yorke; Valerie Yorke
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  6. Indian Pilgrimage, An: Village Man, City Man (1975 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  7. Scenes of Viceregal India 1938-9 (1975 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  8. Indian Pilgrimage, An: Ramdevra (1974 Film)

    Director
    Mira Reym Binford; Michael Camerini
    Producer
    Mira Reym Binford; Michael Camerini
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  9. Agrindus Way, The (1973 Film)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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.

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  10. Family of Man, The (7 Parts) (1970 Film)

    Producer
    John Percival
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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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