Welcome to Paper Jewels, the Raj Postcard Archive 1892-1947

Based on the book and exhibitions Paper Jewels Postcards from the Raj (Mapin/Alkazi, 2018) by Omar Khan. A new Raj (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka or Myanmar) postcard here everyday, and on Instagram and Facebook.

Dancing Girls. Jaipur. ca 1905	Gangavataran ca 1905	Watson's Hotel, Bombay. ca 1910
Darjeeling. Kangchenjunga. No. 1 ca 1910	Bori Bunder Station 1899	A Ferry Steam Boat on the River Indus at Mari-Indus ca 1915
How We Make Love in the East ca 1908	The "Dhoby" ca 1905	The "Gharry" Our Local Chariot in Which We Often Tour the Town 1945
A Trysting Place ca 1899	[Lord and Lady Curzon, Kashmir Gate] ca 1903	Indian Jugglers ca 1905
Phatani [Pathan] Dancing Girls ca 1920	Plague Patients. ca 1903	Converted and unconverted Pariah ca 1905
Too hot to write this week, the sun has dried up all the ink. ca 1908	Master's Whisky ca 1910	Moplahs, Malabar ca 1905
A Rodiya Woman Carrying Water, Ceylon ca 1910	View in Sukkur Bazaar ca 1903	Bangalore. The Jumma Masjid Old Poor House Road. ca 1910
Calcutta ca 1897	Rope Bridges, Jhelum River, (Kashmir) ca 1910	The Chiefs of Baluchistan Leaving Darbar Hall Quetta ca 1925
Cemetery, Meerutt (India) ca 1910	Dancing Girls of Peshawar Ready For The Dance ca 1915	Dhobi (Washerman) ca 1904
Dhobi (Washerman) ca 1904	Darjeeling. The Bazaar. ca 1905	Darjeeling. The Bazaar. ca 1905

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