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HIST 450b British Raj: Film List (1591 words) |
 | While some of these films are not very accurate or good, a few are excellent and effectively recreate the environment and compelling issues that people living in British India faced at different moments in their history. |
| And since films are the media through which much of the general public gain their impressions of British India and other parts of South Asia, they are worthy of consideration by historians for that reason alone. |
| Filming began in 2003 and the opening scene was launched by Charles, Prince of Wales during his state visit to India. |
| TFSA '04 List of Films (920 words) |
| The film touches upon corruption, the mafia, energy politics and displacement of villages, and tribal identity in an area where coal has been mined for the last 150 years. |
| This film is a critique of modern man’s mercenary attitude towards nature and his anthropocentric conception of development. |
| The film asks why most of these incidents have taken place in areas where indigenous Adivasi people are majorities, and leaves us to ask why, in the age of globalisation, the state has turned from protector to predator. |
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