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.

Cotton Pickers ca 1903	Indian Troops China ca 1900	State Elephant, Jeypore ca 1910
Hill Tribes, Simla ca 1905	Secundra, Entrance To Akbar's Tomb ca 1907	Snake Charmers 1905
Indians at Ashford ca 1914	The Club, Allahabad ca 1905	View From Malabar Hill, Bombay ca 1903
La Guerre French - Front 1915	The Diwan-i-Khas, Delhi	Midnight ca 1930
Dharmsala, The Goorkha Barracks 1905	Sexan Hospital, Meerut ca 1907	Simla, View from Bazaar ca 1903
The Entrance to the Khyber Pass 1906	St. Patrick School, Karachi ca 1908	The Taj Mahal, Agra ca 1905
The Indian Army - Indians Washing ca 1914	Greetings from Darjeeling ca 1900	Zalra Tank, Ajmere ca 1907
Requisition of goats for the Indian troops ca 1914	The Bazaar of City Multan, India ca 1907	Quetta Fort ca 1903
View of the Zoological Gardens, Calcutta ca 1903	The Ctesiphon Arch, Mesopotamia ca 1917	Inde Francaise Fabrication de Sacs de Jute [French India Manufacturing Jute Sacks] ca 1907
Town Hall Asiatic Society ca 1903	The Mall Murree ca 1930	Parsee Priest ca 1903

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