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 Railway Shed, Lahore ca 1910	Kasauli Hill ca 1905	Dharumtalla [Dharmatala] Road, Calcutta ca 1935
Eid Mubarak ca 1930	Group of Indian Fakirs ca 1901	Long Live the Revolution! Shrimati Sarojini Naidu ca 1930
Government House, Calcutta ca 1905	Phatani Begging Woman ca 1920	The Bhils ca 1905
Bombay 1899	A Potter ca 1905	A Begging Fakir Punjab ca 1906
H.R.H. Prince of Wales coming out from Khyber Pass 1922	The Goteik Viaduct, Burma ca 1910	Greetings from India. ca 1910
Dhurmtollah Masjid [Mosque], Calcutta. 1905	Indian Army Type of Team 1914	The Raja Bazaar (Main Street) of Rawalpindi City ca 1910
Types de l'armee de l'Inde ca 1915	The Pundit Priest, Bawan Sacred Tank, Kashmir ca 1903	[Post Office English Mail Expected on] ca 1905
Mali, the Gardener ca 1905	Wanting to Fight for England ca 1916	A Rajput Toi ca 1930
Nautch Girl Lying, Jaipur ca 1912	Monkeys ca 1920	[British Flag] ca 1914
Sreemati Kamaladevi Chattopadhaya ca 1930	The Water Wheel ca 1910	Schwegeena Pagoda, Pagan, Burma. ca 1905

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