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 Group of Schoolgirls ca 1905	Delhi. Queen's Bath ca 1908	Srinagar, looking towards the Palace ca 1903
Priest taking dinner with his Pupil ca 1908	Indian Girls ca 1905	Darjeeling. Dandy and Bearers. ca 1908
The Entrance, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Colombo ca 1908	Jeypore Zenana Carriage ca 1908	Hindu Temple ca 1899
Government College, Lahore ca 1903	Hindoe [Hindu] ca 1900	South Indian Woman
The Museum, Calcutta ca 1905	Hindu Temple Manora Karachi ca 1920	Bombay Victoria Terminus ca 1905
[Indian Woman in Studio] ca 1920	The Roberts Statue, Calcutta ca 1905	The Albert Museum, Jaipur ca 1905
The Albert Museum, Jeypore ca 1901	Madras Girl with fruit ca 1910	The Pontoon Bridge on the Hooghly. Calcutta. ca 1905
Martund Temple, Kashmir ca 1903	A Marwari Woman ca 1905	Interior of Taj, Agra ca 1905
Famous Nautch Girl ca 1907	Lahore. Golden Mosque. ca 1905	A Table Servant ca 1908
Temple at Ramnagar, Benares ca 1905	A Kashmir Woman ca 1903	Coromandel Coaster (India) 19th Century ca 1910

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