History

Media resources

• Centre for South Asian Studies : film collection (University of Cambridge)
  Database and archive of mainly amateur films from India in the last decades of British rule (1920s to 1940s), including Partition and its aftermath. The films can be viewed online
• Centre for South Asian Studies: audio collection (University of Cambridge)
  Searchable database of digital audio recordings of interviews to complement the film collection. The interviews are in mainly in English, with some recordings in Hindi, Urdu etc.
• Colonial film: moving images of the British Empire
  Database and archive of some 6,000 films illustrating life in Britain’s colonies, dating from the 1890s to the later years of the 20th century. Over 150 films are available to view online.