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 Taj, Agra ca 1902	Ahmed din Buildings Rawalpindi ca 1920	The Cave of Fakir of Api in Arsalkot ca 1938
CMS Medical Missions Islamabad ca 1903	With the Indian Expeditionary Force 1919	Camp Ali Musjid In The Late Afghan War 1919 ca 1919
King Emperor's Message to the British Troops from India ca 1915	Jahangiri Mahal, Agra Fort. ca 1907	Gateway of India, Showing Taj Mahal Hotel, Bombay ca 1930
Cashmere [House Boat] ca 1910	The Town Hall, City Jubbulpore [Jabalpur] ca 1908	India, Franco-British Exhibition, London 1908 1908
Camping in Kashmir ca 1920	Dreams in Stone, Temple of Halebid, Mysore State ca 1907	Camel Caravan in Karachi, India - November 1929 1929
Calcutta, Band Stand, Eden Gardens ca 1907	New Municipal Office Under Construction ca 1930	City and Third Bridge, Srinagar, Kashmir ca 1920
Dandy ca 1907	Final Murree Football Tournament 1909	Rope Bridge, Kashmir 1903
Gandhi Garden Karachi ca 1930	Srinagar. View from Tukht Hill. ca 1910	Lucknow. The Kaiser Bagh and Vinery Buildings. 1910
Frere Hall ca 1910	Coolies ca 1907	Bengali Lady ca 1907
Government House ca 1910	Catamaran ca 1905	Birthday Greetings from India 1943

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