Movies: Darjeeling

In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and the British Empire exchanged poppies, produced in its Indian colonies and transformed into opium, for Chinese tea. Inundated by the drugs, China was...

This amateur film gives us a fair idea of the opulent life enjoyed by members of the British government in India....

Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya....

Rare amateur footage of East India....