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.

Fruit Market, Quetta ca 1903	General Post Office Lahore ca 1910	Bombay Fisherman ca 1904
Taj Mahal in Agra ca 1908	A Frontier Raider Shot Near Nowshera N.W.F.P. ca 1921	Hanging of Rioters, Peshawar ca 1931
Victory of Indrajit ca 1905	A Baluch Dwarf ca 1905	Congress Weavers ca 1931
Simla. Viceregal Lodge. ca 1905	Gandhi Garden Karachi ca 1935	A Baluchi Hindu ca 1910
RAMEE (Village Matron) ca 1908	Women baking bread ca 1899	A Brahui Chief ca 1905
The Bengal Bank, Lahore ca 1910	Varkari [Pilgrims] 1899	Up-to-date Parsi ca 1903
The Place of Contrition in Benares 1898	Sun Procession - Jaipur ca 1910	The Frontier Loosewala or Religious Fanatic ca 1921
Simla. The Gardens & Terraces, Viceregal Lodge. ca 1910	Clive Street, Calcutta ca 1905	Old Court House Street, Calcutta ca 1905
Circular Walk Gulmarg Kashmir ca 1905	General Post Office, Calcutta ca 1903	Asia Butterflies ca 1905
Corstorphans Hotel, Simla ca 1905	Sampling and Weighing Cotton ca 1908	Calcutta. Curzon Gardens. ca 1905

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