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.

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	Shaukat Ali entering Prison ca 1922
The Language of Stamps ca 1907	Hindu Women Carrying Water ca 1903	Simla, Grand Hotel Avenue 1906
Singapore - Chinois Coiffeur un Indien [Chinese Dresses Hair of an Indian] ca 1905	Naini Tal, Wellesley Girl's School ca 1905	Tirumala's Palace, Madura ca 1905

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