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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.


Madras. Connemara Library.
1905
A Mohamedan dancing Girl in Attitude
ca 1903
Hyderabad, The Char Minar
ca 1903
Lahore. Wazir Khan's Mosque (Outer Part)
ca 1905
Fire near Ry Station - Lahore
ca 1905
A Mad Mulla (Religious Fanatic) with his Followers, N.W. Frontier
ca 1930
Parsee Tower of Silence, Bombay
ca 1903
Tanjore Palace
ca 1905
The Wonderful Art of Taking Things Easy
1910
Snow View, Nainital
ca 1905
Sikh Akalis at Amritsar
ca 1905
Not so bad. eh? what !! A bit rough at the end of the month though.
ca 1908
[Dancer and Musicians]
1936
Nanga Parbat (Kashmir)
ca 1903
Edward VII Emperor of India India Famine
1905
Indian Crew of the Enemy Steamer sunk by S.M.S. Mowe
ca 1916
The Indian Postman
1903
Hindu Girl of the Period
ca 1905
A Fakir
ca 1905
Calcutta
ca 1897

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