Architectural and topographical views, street scenes and genre studies including Hindu shepherds; a Hindu funeral procession; Muslim worshippers in the court of the Jama Masjid, Delhi; a Jain Hermit doing penance in front of fire under the mid-day sun; Lady Curzon with the Maharaja of Kashmir; grand processions at the Delhi Durbar; the Maharaja of Gwalior and his palace; giant bamboos in the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta; a Parsee schoolmaster with his class of boys; a man-eating tiger and man-eating alligators; a Hindu devotee doing penance on a bed of nails; twenty women working a heavy road-roller; and street scenes with elephants, sacred cows, camel wagons and bullock carts.

Darrah describes this set as "a masterpiece of photographic narration".