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.

Too hot to write this week, the sun has dried up all the ink. ca 1908	Master's Whisky ca 1910	Moplahs, Malabar ca 1905
A Rodiya Woman Carrying Water, Ceylon ca 1910	View in Sukkur Bazaar ca 1903	Bangalore. The Jumma Masjid Old Poor House Road. ca 1910
Calcutta ca 1897	Rope Bridges, Jhelum River, (Kashmir) ca 1910	The Chiefs of Baluchistan Leaving Darbar Hall Quetta ca 1925
Cemetery, Meerutt (India) ca 1910	Dancing Girls of Peshawar Ready For The Dance ca 1915	Dhobi (Washerman) ca 1904
Dhobi (Washerman) ca 1904	Darjeeling. The Bazaar. ca 1905	Darjeeling. The Bazaar. ca 1905
D. Billimoria ca	Shoe-lace Hawker ca 1903	Bachha Sakoo The Bandit King of Afghanistan and his Comrades Stoned to Death at Kabul ca 1929
A Cashmere Lady ca 1930	P. & O. S.S. Kaiser-i-Hind [Emperor of India] ca 1920	Massacre Ghat, Cawnpore ca 1905
Scene of the Hooghly, Calcutta. ca 1903	The Baby and his Goat. Jaipur. ca 1905	Karli Caves ca 1899
When Master is at Office ca 1905	Master's Tooth-Brush ca 1905	The End of Baccha Sakoo and his Accomplices by the Ropes in their Necks. ca 1929
The Bowachi ca 1915	Specimens of Kashmir Carving ca 1903	Miss Buchwa Jan of Karachi ca 1905

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