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.

Indian Topics Cotton Weaving ca 1942	The Little Sick Boy ca 1910	Out For A Rickshaw Ride ca 1930
Frontier of India ca 1929	Monkey Performance ca 1905	Baluchistan Begger [Beggar] ca 1920
Leopoldo Dagradi ca 1911	A Hindu Sanyasi ca 1903	Hide and Seek ca 1908
A Native Shop ca 1903	A Scene in Victoria Gardens, Bombay ca 1905	Gateway of India, Mumbai ca 1927
Guzerath Broker 1903	The Elphinstone Street, Karachi ca 1903	A Beauty in the Garden ca 1915
Bengali Girls Grinding Rice ca 1907	Rawalpindi City ca 1920	Ladies Section of the Bombay Exhibition 1905
Botanical Gardens, Calcutta ca 1904	Water Fall - Mussoorie ca 1905	Victoria Memorial, The Archaeological Museum, Peshawar ca 1915
Ferozi Tawayif of Delhi ca 1905	Devika Rani ca 1936	Clive Street (Evening), Calcutta ca 1910
The Museum, Lahore ca 1910	Morning Sun, Darjeeling ca 1930	Young Madras ca 1904
Ganeshkhind Avenue, Poona ca 1905	Military Prison Trimulgherry ca 1908	Miranjani from Govt. House, Nathiagali ca 1908

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