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.

Coronation review held in June 1911 in London (Murree) ca 1911	The Delhi Gate, Fort Agra 1910	An Indian Road Scene, Putiya, Rajshahi, Bengal ca 1910
A Knife Grinder ca 1903	Knife Grinder ca 1901	General Post Office, Calcutta ca 1902
An Indian Rajah ca 1903	Shah Alum's Tomb, Ahmedabad ca 1905	View From Malabar Hill, Bombay ca 1903
[India Artist Card] ca 1925	Victoria Memorial, Calcutta. King Edward VII Memorial Arch. ca 1921	A Village Scene ca 1910
Hard Life in India ca 1910	An Indian Bungalow ca 1903	The Bund, Poona ca 1903
Jagniwas Water Palace Udaipur ca 1910	An Indian School Room ca 1910	Greetings from Calcutta ca 1905
A Benares Dancing Girl ca 1904	A Benares Dancing Girl 1905	English Aircraft Shot Down ca 1915
A Baluchi Ploughman ca 1903	Bombay Beauty ca 1907	Calcutta Museum ca 1908
Taj Mahal Hotel. Bombay. ca 1905	Galta Tank Jaipur ca 1903	A Fair Musician ca 1899
Bara Bazaar. Hyderabad, Dn. [Deccan] ca 1907	Gulmarg ca 1902	Genuine Bull Durham ca 1910

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