Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Indore, Bhopal, Gwalior and Delhi (1922)

Part of India on Film: 1899 - 1947
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The Prince enjoys a stately procession and visits the Taj Mahal before meeting senior Indian royalty in this official travelogue from the royal tour of 1921-22. This is one of a series of films shot during the tour by George Woods-Taylor; a compilation film was released under the title Our Greatest Ambassador.
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[@bhupindersinghkanwar5681]

सारै गुलामों की तसवीरै

[@rustyflowers1696]

i miss the glorious days of empire so much

[@rustyflowers1696]

such exquisite class and culture, it was the greatest time in india's history

[@arashokbhargava5087]

Nice to see 100 yr old era

[@theradical9073]

Timeless best moments

[@shaliniv470]

Incredible videos of our Indian history Atulya videos hai jinka koi price nahi Priceless thank you for uploading 🙏🇮🇳

[@alwyndsouza2276]

Thanks BFI for giving us glimpses of Indian history a century ago.

[@ShriRaghunathPrusty.]

Nice

[@arohiyadav8468]

Great Indian history

[@mahbubdawood2909]

An old is gold

[@albertgrant1017]

Wayinfront 1 You are absolutely correct !

[@salikaezindagivlogs]

Very nice sharing

[@tejabhadu2822]

Great united india ,eske Bad hamare carodo bhai alag Ho gye

[@king45353]

The royal mistake - Edward Viii

[@Aaradhya_2417]

India was so poor. Look at the children they don't even have clothes to wear. Thank God we are free now but we should not take our freedom for granted. We must be united otherwise again the history would repeat.

[@thinker3119]

Got divided in the end of the day

[@maheshambre03]

Friend I think history has started repeating again in India. People are working days and nights in IT companies for UK. I absconded my company on spot before 2 days which I joined before 2 months. This guy's started showing their original colours.

[@siddharthasaxena1510]

British Period in India was Dark and Wild Period.

[@siddharthasaxena1510]

@zedono onodez Send me in English.

[@wayinfront1]

No. It was by far the best period of India's history.

[@piyushsonone7]

My city

[@pamtnman1515]

Fantastic old footage. The Begum was a fascinating person.

[@edenwoodssprings6687]

What is so glorious about this? it’s time to give it back to the British

[@KamalKhan-tm2rq]

Woow

[@milonmitra3584]

Where is this Kitchener College in Delhi?

[@guorav9151]

❤️❤️🙏🙏👍

[@imranwaraich7193]

Look at the dresses both of the Maharajahs/ British Officers. On the other hand , look at the inferior dress of the Indians over whom they ruled. What a contrast/ discrimination ! Shame on the ruling class (both Muslims & Hindu rulers )to enjoy themselves while the ruled suffered every day.

[@ronitparikh2293]

I agree

[@imranwaraich7193]

@@ronitparikh2293 thanks

[@nikhilsoni5262]

You seem to be a very nice person. Whenever I find such views, I feel like befriending them.😊.

[@jasmeenkaur595]

Very nice vidio

[@philipeisenberg6984]

'video'

[@TheSistineChappal]

H.R.H is His Royal Highenss

[@villedewaraich]

Ye ham hai...ye hamara india hai ..or iske baad goro ne hamari .........

[@milonmitra3584]

Look at the dress of the Maharajahs and the Britishers. How nice they look. Look at the dress of the Indians over whom they ruled. What a contrast! Shame on the ruling class to enjoy while the ruled suffer.

[@atopimmigration]

YES , these useless Maharajas and British rulers were blood suckers of innocent Indian masses. Shame on them

[@ivinay21]

Toa abhi Konsa farak padaa hai. Britishers or Maharaj's ko galiya mat do. Jayshi praja vaisa Raja hota hai.

[@novacorpsc532]

Jayaji Rao Scindia the maharaja of Gwalior helped the britishers to kill Rani Lakshmi bai and now his successors are sitting in rajya sabha

[@Paul-ft9dn]

its exactly the same today except its just indian elites

[@colinpeacock7648]

@@Paul-ft9dn Yes you are absolutely right there Thank you for your right facts

[@cbcnewsbashant3736]

Hamara desh gulam to sirf isliye huaa kyun ki koi bhi raja ak hokar in angrejon se ladai nahin karsakte the agar sabhi raja milkar ladai karte to yeh desh kabhi gulam nahin hota Magar in murkhon Ko sirf apni padi thi inki satta chalti rahe bash aam Janta chahe kitni muskil men rahe

[@siddharthasaxena1510]

Bandhu Namaskar ekdum sahi baat likhi hai tumne.

[@bambhavaravi4595]

Waise ye ek achhi baat bhi he agar angrej nahi aate to republic of bharat kabhi banta hi nahi humlog bhi middle East ki tarah bohot saare desh hote.joki ander hi ander ladte jaise middle East me hota he.aur bharat raja sahi se chhutkara kabhi nahi milta.

[@mikejohnson599]

well in the olden times of colonization the british were no worse than all the other colonizers like france germany spain etc thankfully that period is over and we must move on and maybe profit from the past i am very sad for the poverty in india and now i see the govt spending money on space travel and presidential palaces instead of distributing what wealth there is very sad but seems to be a product of capitalism everywhere the rich get richer

[@shivawildlife]

Mere channel pe bhi maine video bana kar dala hai.😊🙏

[@bhadawar01]

11:14 to 11:28 Maharaja Ganga Singh Rathore

[@rajnidaniel5287]

Kitne saral log thye

[@mouloudadjroud716]

الأمير ادوارد أمير ويلز في جولة بالهند؟!...

[@pavelsaxena9615]

मोतीमहल गेट?

[@aneeskhan9774]

Nadi gate hai

[@abs3704]

Strange to think everyone in this video is dead now.

[@mikejohnson599]

many of the tiny children may still be alive

[@abs3704]

@@mikejohnson599 100+ ? I doubt so.

[@aashi2271]

@@abs3704 yes maybe

[@kamalakarpatil5088]

ब्रिटिशर हो या यहा के महाराज साले सब ऐयाषी करते रहे, एकदूसरो कि तारीफ करते रहे और गरीब भारतीय जनता को लुटते रहे. इन का खानदान भी आज यही कर रहा है. सब को जेल मे बंद कर देना ही इन की ऐयाषी को रोक सकता है

[@ThePathakkk]

Aur Jo lakho log British Sena Mai naukari karte the jinki tum jaisi aulad hai unhe Kaha band Karna chaiye

[@Rahulgawree]

11:47 may be maharana fateh singh ji of udaipur and mewar

[@chotadon967]

no...he's not.....

[@TheIDulet]

no voice

[@kamaljain8081]

These are not the state elephants these are Our elephants Indian elephants who are forcefully taken by British state and look at our people how much hard work they are doing

[@harunsami2841]

Let me be frank without british we the people this sub-continent would never be at the stage we r in.

[@albertgrant1017]

Harm Sami You are correct.

[@wayinfront1]

The British did not 'take' the local ruler's elephants at all. They belonged to her! That local state had ceremonial elephants before the British ever arrived, they kept them during the British Raj. They only lost them after independence, when Nehru's socialist Indian state acquired all the local rulers' (of every local state) wealth and they couldn't afford things like ceremonial elephants anymore. No Rolls-Royces and thousands of servants either. They mostly became impoverished - thanks to the Indian state. So you're talking rubbish.

[@colinpeacock7648]

@@harunsami2841 Thank you for your right facts you are absolutely right there Thank you

[@ashokkumar-se5sl]

LIVING DOCUMENTS ATLEAST MAHARAJA OR KING HAD SOME DIGNITY .BUT AFTER FREEDOM ALL INDIA PROPERTIES NOW OPENLY SOLD TO PRIVATE OR CAPITILISTS POWER .NOTHING LEFT FOR INDIANS .80% INDIAN NOW DEPENDENT ON GOVT SUBSIDISED FOOD AND 70 CRORE INDIAN UNEMPLOYED AND ITS HAPPENING UNDER HINDU GOVT

[@rishabhada8295]

KEEP YOUR IRRELEVANT SHIT TO YOURSELF . NOT NEEDED HERE . RAISE YOUR ISSUE AT SOME RELEVANT PLACE REGARDING EMPLOYMENT AND SUBSIDIES . ONE MORE THING YOUR COMMENT IS CONTRADICTORY IN ITSELF YOU ARE SAYING HINDU GOVT IS CAPITALIST BECAUSE ITS SELLING EVERYTHING TO BUSINESSMEN AND SOCIALIST ALSO BECAUSE 80% INDIANS ARE DEPENDENT ON SUBSIDIES. AND ANOTHER THING YOU SAW DIGNITY IN MAHARAJA BUT FAILED TO SEE POOR PEOPLE'S PLIGHT.

[@nikeakshay]

These congress supporters are actually most intolerant people in India .

[@naon1793]

@@rishabhada8295 The thing is that he is a bastard. He is of the race of those people who supported British rule and partition of our great nation or probably an ignorant school boy from England or Canada. He doesn't even know that India is a secular country.

[@colinpeacock7648]

Very true Thank you for being straight in what you have said

[@marsboyo1995]

Only the Brits could have thought that the prices and their elites made for a glamorous shot. The rest of the country was facing famine, small pox,and dire poverty. I was disgusted watching this. Historical yes but the undercurrent was nauseating!

[@wayinfront1]

India ''was facing famine, small pox,and dire poverty'' for hundreds and even thousands of years before the British arrived. It was only after their arrival that you got the introduction of proper hospitals (mainly from mid 19thC onwards), sanitary and other infrastructure like the railways, bridges etc. Remember there was famine, smallpox and poverty in Britain too, for various reasons, including climate-related (large volcanic explosions for example, blotted out the sun around 1816, led to failed harvests in Europe, extreme cold and famine), and the fact that smallpox inoculation only started in the early 19thC. In general, the British raised India to a far higher degree of civilisation. India's main problem has always been huge over-population. Don't blame the British for that. Read 'Mother India' for the truth about Indians under British rule in the 1930s.

[@user-rd4qk6nz8i]

The ruler, and thier servants, sainiks were slaves of British so they attend the ceremoney and welcome british, but why common man common Indian had slavery in his mind? Why should he attend and welcome british?

[@wayinfront1]

They weren't slaves at all, unless you count their condition under the local rulers, The fact is that most Indians were far better off under British rule.

[@user-rd4qk6nz8i]

@@wayinfront1 only the people who ate common man with using power given by british had better life ಅಂಡ್ opposed freedom

[@colinpeacock7648]

@@wayinfront1 Yes you are absolutely right there Thank you for being straight

[@zaclang6472]

When the British arrived they found 100 different states and tribes warring against each other - they forged a single central authority which became The Republic of India. They built New Delhi, founded Calcutta & Madras, and created the world's 2nd biggest railway network. They built Asia's first museum, started India's first newspaper, banned Sati & human sacrifice - they are always maligned by most Indians, but they did more good than bad.

[@colinpeacock7648]

Very well said there You are absolutely right there no one ever talks or says anything about the good the British did in India Thank you for being one who appreciates

[@vistaforsvagenvistaforsvag1252]

4 din ki Zindagi he phr mar jana he, Kia faida hua inko itni Shan o shokat se dunya me rehne ka

[@shantdey]

Do you have the temerity to show his visit to Calcutta? Completely boycotted under Chittaranjan Das and Subhas Chandra Bose. What's the point in showing the visits to the princely states that were lapdogs of the British? The visit stands thoroughly discredited

[@imransharif443]

Nice