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.

Nagarkhana Gate, Fort, Belgaum ca 1905	The Pykara Falls, Nilgiris ca 1905	Tatawadha ca 1905
The Well at Sultan Nizamuddeen. Delhi. ca 1905	Bombay ca 1900	Baramullah, Kashmir. ca 1904
Maner Bihar ca 1898	Rajputana Aboriginal ca 1910	A Group of Ayahs ca 1905
How our Food is cooked The Bawarchi The Cook 1911	Albert Hall, Front view. Jaipur. ca 1905	Calcutta ca 1897
The "Chuprassie" ca 1910	Juggler with goat and monkey ca 1903	Royal Visit at Gwalior, on Jan 1905 ca 1910
Saiyad Mobarik Ali, Moolvee (Learned Man) ca 1908	A Belle of Northern India ca 1910	Rice Fields, Ceylon ca 1910
Alauddin Gate, a Partial View, Delhi. ca 1905	Taj Mahal. Agra ca 1899	The highest gate in the Fort of Gwalior 1898
Kashmir Nautch Girl ca 1905	Coonoor ca 1905	Pattawala (Office Peon) ca 1905
Calcutta ca 1908	Greetings from South India ca 1896	Frohliche Weinachten [Merry Christmas] ca 1919
33rd Punjabis ca 1911	The Harvest ca 1904	Kothari Parade and Lady Lloyd Pier ca 1905

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