The Paper Jewels Daily Gem

A new Raj (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka or Myanmar) postcard here, on Instagram and Facebook every 48 hours. Can also be perused as categories. Based on the book Paper Jewels Postcards from the Raj by Omar Khan (Mapin/Alkazi, 2018).

Bullock with water-skins & Bhisti. Jaipur ca 1905	Aitken's Post, Bailey Guard. ca 1905	Chowringhee, Calcutta ca 1905
Our Dhoby, Madras ca 1905	Damayanti ca 1905	Coronation Darbar 1911 - Delhi ca 1911
[Calcutta Harbour on the Hooghly] ca 1903	Group of famine stricken victims ca 1905	An Indian Bungalow ca 1903
Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji, President, 2nd Congress, Calcutta 1886 and 9th Congress, Lahore, 1893 ca 1905	Chalking the Doorstep, Madras ca 1905	Gardens on the Dahl Lake, Kashmir ca 1903
Ancient Buddhist Temple Gwalior ca 1904	The Imperial Delhi Durbar ca 1911	An Ideal Cycling Costume ca 1910
Rangoon Jail - Prisoners waiting for breakfast 1905	Dancing Girl - Jaipur ca 1910	Cultivators ca 1905
Empire of British India and Ceylon [Coins] ca 1905	An Indian Family, Karachi ca 1908	The Great Burning Ghat in Benares 1898
Greetings from Bombay ca 1903	Chandulal's Car, Bolarum, Hyderabad ca 1905	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

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