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 Baluch Dwarf ca 1905	Congress Weavers ca 1931	Simla. Viceregal Lodge. ca 1905
Gandhi Garden Karachi ca 1935	A Baluchi Hindu ca 1910	RAMEE (Village Matron) ca 1908
Women baking bread ca 1899	A Brahui Chief ca 1905	The Bengal Bank, Lahore ca 1910
Varkari [Pilgrims] 1899	Up-to-date Parsi ca 1903	The Place of Contrition in Benares 1898
Sun Procession - Jaipur ca 1910	The Frontier Loosewala or Religious Fanatic ca 1921	Simla. The Gardens & Terraces, Viceregal Lodge. ca 1910
Clive Street, Calcutta ca 1905	Old Court House Street, Calcutta ca 1905	Circular Walk Gulmarg Kashmir ca 1905
General Post Office, Calcutta ca 1903	Asia Butterflies ca 1905	Corstorphans Hotel, Simla ca 1905
Sampling and Weighing Cotton ca 1908	Calcutta. Curzon Gardens. ca 1905	Colaba Causeway, Bombay. ca 1905
Rangoon Jail ca 1905	Simla Timber Coolie ca 1905	Bombay Beauties ca 1905
A Coconut Seller, Madras ca 1910	Walker Hospital, Simla ca 1905	Extracting Gold, Cyanide Works, Kolar Fields ca 1901

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