History of India

AGRA Location: Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India Year: 1930 Film Creator: Arthur and Kate Tode (Kahop) Music: Thin Places - Jesse Gallagher (original video does not have any audio)

1928] Reception at the Parliament of New Delhi NEW DELHI Location: New Delhi, India. Year: 1928 Camera Operator: Roger Dumas Music: The Blue Pearl - Jesse Gallagher (original footage does not have any audio) Description: The capital built by the British: the circular parliament, the two symmetrical southern and northern blocks of the Secretary of State distributed on either side of the Kingsway today Raj-path, at the end of which will be built in 1929 the residence of Viceroy Rashtrapathi Bhawan. Lord Irwin, Viceroy from 1926 to 1931 inaugurated Parliament on 18 January 1927. A few months later, he received many Maharajahs, mainly from Punjab and Rajasthan (Jagatjit Singh, Maharajah of Kapurthala was present).

Location: India Year: 1932 Description: Partially edited newsreel on the subject of Gandhi fasting for a non-violent method of resistance against British Colonial rule in India.

Description: Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu philosopher makes first appearance in talking films. Says the shrinking of distance between countries should be used to promote spiritual values, not just commerce, encouraging a "world-wide commerce of heart and mind, sympathy and understanding, and never to allow this sublime opportunity to be sold in the slave markets for the cheap price of individual profit."

[1946] B. R. Ambedkar's Speech to the Constituent Assembly