A fashion parade in Malaya. The fashion parade starts with European styles moving eastward to India, Pakistan, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong and Burma. People gather from various places to watch the event. A model presents a dress. People watch. Men play music in the background. A model presents evening gown. Another model presents Indian Sari. A model wears Rajasthan dress. Model wearing Hyderabad costume. A model wears a Vietnamese Áo dài dress. Chinese women wearing modern Cheongsam dress and Hong Kong-style Samfu everyday attire.
Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India dies in New Delhi, India. Flashback scene from 1947 as thousands of people assemble and listen to Nehru speak from the Red Fort as India achieves Independence. View of Nehru talking with U.S. President John F Kennedy while walking in a garden in the early 1960s. Indian national flag lowered to mourn for his death. A large crowd gathered to witness his funeral according to Hindu rituals. A woman joins hands towards the dead body of Nehru and weeps.
Events around time of division of India into separate states of India and Pakistan. Lord Mountbatten declares India as a free country in Karachi and New Delhi. Crowd gathers at the India Gate to celebrate the freedom. Lord Mountbatten and Lady Mountbatten in jeep. Celebration in the cities. Mohammad Ali Jinnah addresses people. New flag of Pakistan flies on the flag pole. Officers and Mohammad Ali Jinnah salute. People walk on the street of free India. Jawaharlal Nehru addresses people. Indian flag on the flag pole.
The flag raising ceremony in the Dominion of India after the partition of India. Officials arrive to attend the national flag raising ceremony. The flag is raised by an Indian official. Officials unfurl the national flag of India. Men salute the flag. A crowd surrounds the flag fluttering from a pole. An Indian official delivers an address.
The Indian Police Force Lathi charging and attempting to control a huge mob during the post Independence unrest in India. Hindu protesters seen with banners of 'Down with Pakistan Hooliganism'. Police control the rioting crowd. (Events near time of division of India into states of India and Pakistan.)
Britain's Lord Mountbatten offers Indian leaders an unconditional plan for freedom in New Delhi, India. Members of All-India Congress headed by Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru hear British offer of dominion status.