Young Indian recruits compete in a covered sand-filled wrestling pit at an army camp in India. Several pairs of recruits are seen wrestling. Trees in the background. A referee enters.
British woman and a boy in India climb onto an elephant with a ladder. Elephant rider seated on the elephant. Indian man removes the ladder.
Riots in India. Indian citizens on the street. A huge crowd gathers during the Independence Struggle. The policemen beat the rioters with canes. Police on horsebacks. Cars parked on the side of the roads. Buildings in the background. The crowd disperses as the policemen control the crowd. Several people lying on street. Ambulance in the street.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returns back to India after unsuccessful talks in Britain. Mahatma Gandhi urges for non-violent war against British rule. A ship at harbor. Mahatma Gandhi surrounded by Indian citizens. People walk with him. He addresses the crowd. Crowd cheers. A sign on a building reads 'Central Prison'. People walk into the prisons. Policemen stand near the gate of the prison.
The United Kingdom shapes a new policy for withdrawing its colonial power from India and Egypt. Skyline of London, United Kingdom. The Palace of Westminster, serving as the meeting place of the British Parliament, seen from the River Thames (Parliament Square, London, SW1A 0AA). British Prime Minister Clement Attlee talking with other members of the British Parliament. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, looking down, with Prime Minister Attlee behind him. View of Simla, India. Sign in English and Indian says “SIMLA Height above sea 6848”. View of the Simla Viceregal Lodge, now known as the Rashtrapati Niwas (Boileauganj, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh 171005), the venue of the Simla Conference. Viceroy of India Lord Archibald Percival Wavell and British Indian politicians of the Indian National Congress and All-India Muslim League parties meet for the Simla Conference to discuss a plan for Indian self-government. A crowd of Muslim Indians, Sikhs, and Hindu Indians outside the Viceregal Lodge. Kalam Azad, the Indian National Congress Party President, arrives in the Viceregal Lodge by rickshaw. Jawaharlal “Pandit” Nehru, an Indian National Congress Party activist leader and future first Prime Minister of India, rides a piebald pony to the conference. The All-India Muslim League leader and future founder of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, arrives by car. Lord William Wedgwood Benn, the Viscount Stansgate and British Labour Party politician, and the British delegation meet with Egyptian Prime Minister Ismail Sidky Pasha and other politicians. Viscount Stansgate reads the announcement of British preparation to leave Egypt. Indians crowd outside the Viceregal Lodge in Simla, India. Rickshaw drivers sit near parked rickshaws. Indian leaders of the National Congress Party and the All-India Muslim League walk outside the Viceregal Lodge. Jawaharlal Nehru meets supporters. Indians showing support for Jawaharlal Nehru outside the Viceregal Lodge after the Simla Conference.
Illustrated discussion of Japan's limitations in natural resources prior to World War II. Workers shown in textile mills which employed more than half of Japan's factory workers prior to the war, satisfying domestic and export needs. Analysis of the natural resources. Cotton thread is rolled on the spindles in the Textile mills in Japan. Textile mills produce fabric in Japan. Japanese women work in the textile mills. Bales of raw cotton imported from Japanese possessions in Korea and Formosa, and from the United States,India, Brazil and China. They are transported via horse carts and manually pushed on small rail carts to storage buildings for stockpiling. People cultivating some of the small amount of cotton grown in Japan. Horses and cattle used to pull plows in rice paddies. Pigs used as scavengers. Woolen fabric is produced from wool. Some of Japan's very few sheep being sheared for wool. Women working in fields of mulberry trees where silk worms flourish on their leaves. Views of the silk being spun onto spindles in a factory. Silk fabrics being stacked. Illustrated summary highlights Japanese domestic shortages of cotton, wool, and leather needed for clothing.
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