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.

Public Gardens - Bassein ca 1905	Gandhi ca 1948	A Native Group ca 1905
Taboot Procession, Bombay ca 1905	Kandyan lady ca 1908	Kandyan Lady, Ceylon ca 1908
General View of Peshawar City ca 1920	Shatrunjay Temples ca 1901	Bombay - Great Western Hotel ca 1905
Dancing Girl 1899	Soldiers' Married Quarters, Peshawar ca 1905	The Railway Shed, Lahore ca 1910
Kasauli Hill ca 1905	Dharumtalla [Dharmatala] Road, Calcutta ca 1935	Eid Mubarak ca 1930
Group of Indian Fakirs ca 1901	Long Live the Revolution! Shrimati Sarojini Naidu ca 1930	Government House, Calcutta ca 1905
Phatani Begging Woman ca 1920	The Bhils ca 1905	Bombay 1899
A Potter ca 1905	A Begging Fakir Punjab ca 1906	H.R.H. Prince of Wales coming out from Khyber Pass 1922
The Goteik Viaduct, Burma ca 1910	Greetings from India. ca 1910	Dhurmtollah Masjid [Mosque], Calcutta. 1905
Indian Army Type of Team 1914	The Raja Bazaar (Main Street) of Rawalpindi City ca 1910	Types de l'armee de l'Inde ca 1915

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