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.

Sreemati Kamaladevi Chattopadhaya ca 1930	The Water Wheel ca 1910	Schwegeena Pagoda, Pagan, Burma. ca 1905
The Tomb of Maharaja Ranjitsingh, Lahore ca 1908	Arrival of Indian Troops ca 1916	No Hobson's Choice at Taraporevala's
Woman On Chair	A Battery in Action, at Landikhana, N.W.F.P. ca 1919	Woman In Studio ca 1910
A Kashmiri Nautch Girl 1903	The Muzzim, Call to Prayer ca 1920	The Indian Jugglers ca 1903
Wazir Khan's Mosque (Inner Part)	The Advanced Prisoner's Compound, Mesopotamia ca 1917	Woman In Studio ca 1910
Capitol Theatre Peshawar ca 1935	Courtyard India Pavilion 1924	A Peasant's Hut in Sind ca 1904
A Tea Estate, Darjeeling. ca 1899	Puran Reading in a Temple ca 1905	Mother and Child ca 1905
Icicles, Simla ca 1908	Miss Chanda of Hyderabad ca 1906	A Nautch Girl and Musicians ca 1905
Srinagar, 6th Bridge ca 1908	Salaams from India ca 1908	A Coolie in the Stocks, Hongkong ca 1908
Jahangirsha his jar of wine and Zaibun Nissa Begam ca 1910	Conoor and Black Bridge ca 1904	Female Spinning, Jaipur ca 1905

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