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 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	The Pundit Priest, Bawan Sacred Tank, Kashmir ca 1903
[Post Office English Mail Expected on] ca 1905	Mali, the Gardener ca 1905	Wanting to Fight for England ca 1916
A Rajput Toi ca 1930	Nautch Girl Lying, Jaipur ca 1912	Monkeys ca 1920
[British Flag] ca 1914	Sreemati Kamaladevi Chattopadhaya ca 1930	The Water Wheel ca 1910
Schwegeena Pagoda, Pagan, Burma. ca 1905	The Tomb of Maharaja Ranjitsingh, Lahore ca 1908	Arrival of Indian Troops ca 1916
No Hobson's Choice at Taraporevala's	Woman On Chair	A Battery in Action, at Landikhana, N.W.F.P. ca 1919
Woman In Studio ca 1910	A Kashmiri Nautch Girl 1903	The Muzzim, Call to Prayer ca 1920

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