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.

Greetings from India ca 1905	General Post Office in Snow, Ranikhet ca 1905	A Native Musician. Peshawar ca 1907
A Street Scene in Srinagar City. ca 1909	The Taj Mahal, Agra ca 1905	Burma. British Empire Exhibition ca 1924
Punjab Government Office, Simla ca 1907	Asia [Asien] ca 1900	A Dandy ca 1910
The Hanna Pass Baluchistan ca 1910	Shipping Tea, Colombo ca 1905	Passenger Cart ca 1902
The Snowdown Residence, Simla of H.E. The C. in - Chief, Simla ca 1910	Kashmir. Srinagar ca 1906	A Tamil Lady ca 1899
Group of Waziris ca 1907	The Taj Mahal, Agra ca 1910	Street Scene, Delhi. ca 1903
Bombay-Poona Mail. Great Indian Penninsular Railway ca 1910	Hon' ble N.G. Chandravarkar ca 1905	The Dhangar 1910
Greetings from Darjeeling Himalaya ca 1900	A Brahmin Astrologer ca 1905	Wellawatta Canal ca 1907
The Tatschali Line in Bombay 1899	A Bhil Couple ca 1904	State Elephant ca 1899
Buddha's Image ca 1905	A Street Scene, Delhi ca 1909	Canal Scene in Tamaku Taluq ca 1910

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