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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.


A Lazy Father
ca 1908
A Kandyan Lady
ca 1910
H.H. The Maharaja's Palace at Srinagar (Kashmir)
ca 1910
Greetings from India
1900
A Fair Exchange
ca 1900
Asking for Alms
ca 1905
Railway Porter
ca 1903
A Mountain Cottage, Kashmir
ca 1903
Savoy Hotel, Mussoorie
ca 1917
Canal Scene, Narsapur Taluq
ca 1908
Group of Mogul Empresses
1915
Confectioner's Stall - Jaipur
ca 1908
Palm Avenue, Botanical Gardens, Calcutta.
ca 1905
Greetings from Delhi
ca 1908
Shalimar Garden Lahore
ca 1908
Delhi. Old Fort.
ca 1908
Water Carrier, Chumba
ca 1905
The Foot of the Shatrunjaya Hills, Palitana
ca 1905
Bombay - The Museum
ca 1915
His Photo
ca 1910
The Governor's Bodyguard
ca 1903
Madras Victoria Hall
ca 1908
Charpoy Weavers
ca 1908
Shipping on the Hooghly
ca 1899
Exit of Khyber Pass into Peshawar Plain
ca 1920
The Club of Western India. Poona
ca 1903
Punkha Boy
ca 1903
The Gorgeous East Mounting a Royal Tusker
ca 1903
A Kuchi Family
ca 1915
Pir Panjal Range (Kashmir)
ca 1905

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