Mussoorie in 1928

Part of India on Film: 1899 - 1947
This collection of newly digitised films is part of the BFI's contribution to the UK-India Year of Culture 2017, in partnership with the British Council. View more films on BFI Player player.bfi.org.... (UK only)
Extract from "Home Life (1928)"
Colonial family life under the Raj - Join the Hunter family for a tour of colonial domestic life in 1920s north India in this three-part amateur film.
Made by an English family living in north India during the heyday of the Raj, this amateur film reveals the grandeur in which middle-class English colonials lived. It also lets us see how the labours of a large retinue of Indian servants helped to create the intimate spaces of ‘private’ family life, including the summer retreat to the hill station of Mussoorie.
In showing us their ‘home away from home’ the Hunters’ film gives no indication of the anti-British agitation that animated Indian politics in this period. The film was made in 1928, the year in which Indian leaders boycotted the British Government-appointed Indian Statutory Commission and began to draw up their own constitution for an independent India.
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I am from Dehradun thanks a lot sir for this video.

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Thanks a ton for this wonderful video.

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These r da first ever vlogues

[@elias7748]

Must have been so hard to get around because there weren't any cars.

[@itz_looser_2064]

Whenever i watch old mussoorie i got tears in my eyes 🥺 my grand parents era..🥺♥️ What a peaceful and hardworking days. ..love it really ♥️ 0 % road accident rate ♥️ What a 😢 i cant say anything 🥺🥺

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Omg...that was real and rare.

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Show us an image of Prince Edward's Mussoorie India Visit in 1870. He planted a Deodar tree plant in Landour's Protestant cemetery

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I am most interested in this image of Duke of Edinburgh 's Mussoorie visit.

[@ravindraagrawal8416]

Amazing old memories

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👌Wonderful memories 👏👏🙏

[@michealnash753]

Beautiful ,being anglo indian i trully love this marvel of a footage really

[@michealnash753]

@Pooja Sharma I feel very prouddd because they BUILT India into what it is today all the railway is our doing which helps connect this country economicly since so many decades and so much more.

[@michealnash753]

@Pooja Sharma 😂the Railway did not benfit india? ? reall?? Well then you dare not use the indian railway from now on if you have such an issue because we britishers built it You better not use it now because you feel it did not benifit india right??! I challenge you never use it in this life time.

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@Pooja Sharma Its poor because of the corrupt politicians and all the andh bakhts like you in india not allowing it to advance in any aspect.

[@michealnash753]

@Pooja Sharma You are talking as if indians never had any bad people every community has them look at the amounts of crimes being committed the indian laws cant even help the people who need it and you talk about britishers doing atrocities?! FIRst look at the atrocities being done here in india in the present😂

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@Pooja Sharma Listen if anything the BIGGEST CRUEL THIEFS are the indian politicians instead daftly arguing with me do yourself a favour go spare your energy and put up points with them. and secondly dont talk crap about the British if anything THE UK has only Given india and taught india how to access technology and schools yes the very school you studied and learned the english language and now your here arguing with me so KNOW the facts okay?. jis chees ko dheke aur seeke bade hue ho usko thori izat do.

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Super memories tn Q

[@MANUTDmuss]

Ever green mussoorie... I love my hometown...

[@ashishchakravarty100]

see how rikshaw puller literally running carrying these looters.

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This is the character of Britishers

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😢

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Let the rickshaw find its own way.....

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Sahi baat he tujhe Angrez yaad aate honge