The Paper Jewels Daily Gem

A new Raj (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka or Myanmar) postcard here, on Instagram and Facebook every 72 hours. Can also be perused as categories. Based on the book Paper Jewels Postcards from the Raj by Omar Khan (Mapin/Alkazi, 2018).

Watch our new Postcard Pearls, brief videos blending old postcards with the locations today. Watch #1 Frere Hall Karachi and #2 Sukkur: Bridge on the Indus.

ca 1910

Shankar ca 1930	Hillman Carrying Wood ca 1930	Sudder Bazaar, Rawalpindi ca 1907
Mandali Range, Chakrata ca 1910	Patna Archer Mission ca 1910	Jill In The Box ca 1905
R.A.F. Camp Pishin 1928	Lord Sinha British Indian Delegate ca 1919	Murree Bazaar ca 1925
Mowbrays Road, Madras ca 1904	Group of Bhooteas, Darjeeling ca 1903	Maliakali or Devi ca 1905
Maharajah's Palace at Jaipur ca 1908	Mayo College, Ajmer ca 1907	Victoria Terminus G. J. P. Railway, Bombay ca 1905
The Massacre Ghat ca 1905	Victoria Tower, Jacobabad (Sind) ca 1908	Tagore [Silk] ca 1930
Rumi Durwaza, Lucknow ca 1908	P.S. Emperor of India 1948	Sheesh Mahal in the Fort, Agra ca 1908
Murlidhar ca 1910	Guerre 1914 - Hindu Fumant La Pipe [Indian Smoking a Hookah] ca 1919	Kandyan Folk Dance, Ceylon. ca 1940
H.R.H. Prince of Wales passing through Peshawar City ca 1920	Mohammedan Boy from East India 1920	Allahabad Card ca 1915
Khurshid, Indian Cinema Star ca 1940	Shalimar gardens, Lahore 1910	Mr. V. G. Patel ca 1930

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