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Ajmer

Vivid home movie showing street life in the Indian city of Ajmer and a festival in nearby Pushkar

Amateur film 1937 9 mins Silent

Overview

This vivid amateur film captures life on the streets of Ajmer, in the western state of Rajasthan, plus a festival in nearby Pushkar, featuring a camel race, sword-carrying dancers, elephants, shrines and people at the bathing ghats.

The home movies of T. Burtt, an official in the Indian Foreign Service, offer a vivid picture of Simla, Ajmer, Pushkar and, particularly, Lahore in the 1930s.