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 Toda House, Its Master and Mistress. ca 1905	Rickshaw Mussoorie. Dandy Mussoorie. ca 1905	A Buddhist Priest, Ceylon ca 1908
Road Rolling ca 1930	Jeypore. The Chowk and Hawa Mahal ca 1905	Ganges Pagoda ca 1897
The Staff College Quetta ca 1910	The Central Model School, Lahore ca 1908	Bombay Native Bazaar ca 1905
Watchers Trans-Border Type ca 1915	Nagarkhana Gate, Fort, Belgaum ca 1905	The Pykara Falls, Nilgiris ca 1905
Tatawadha ca 1905	The Well at Sultan Nizamuddeen. Delhi. ca 1905	Bombay ca 1900
Baramullah, Kashmir. ca 1904	Maner Bihar ca 1898	Rajputana Aboriginal ca 1910
A Group of Ayahs ca 1905	How our Food is cooked The Bawarchi The Cook 1911	Albert Hall, Front view. Jaipur. ca 1905
Calcutta ca 1897	The "Chuprassie" ca 1910	Juggler with goat and monkey ca 1903
Royal Visit at Gwalior, on Jan 1905 ca 1910	Saiyad Mobarik Ali, Moolvee (Learned Man) ca 1908	A Belle of Northern India ca 1910
Rice Fields, Ceylon ca 1910	Alauddin Gate, a Partial View, Delhi. ca 1905	Taj Mahal. Agra ca 1899

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