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.

Empress Market Camp, Karachi ca 1903	Radha-Vilas 1910	Ceylon 1892
Postman, Mysore, British India ca 1900	[Dancer] ca 1900	Gruss aus Carl Hagenbeck's Indien 1898 1898
Mr. D. E. Wacha ca 1903	The Residency (General View) Lucknow ca 1908	Bombay. General View from Clock Tower. ca 1908
Jama Musjid ca 1908	Ancient Temple on the Takht Hill. B.C. 200. Kashmir ca 1905	The Bhistie ca 1903
The Bazaar, Delhi ca 1903	The Bazaar, Leh ca 1905	Rabindranath Tagore 1944
Tomb of Etamad-ud-Dowla, Agra. ca 1908	Group of Lamas ca 1905	The Auckland House School, Simla ca 1908
The Great Hero of India ca 1925	Sacrificing a Goat for a Religious Festival ca 1908	Madras, Holy Tank at Tirukalikunoram ca 1905
Delhi (Fort) Diwan-i-Khas ca 1908	Progress of Fashion ca 1910	The Pagoda, Eden Gardens, Calcutta ca 1905
Tea Garden, Gauhati, Assam ca 1903	Temple d'Ellora ca 1910	Parsi Ladies ca 1904
Souvenir of Burma 1905	Sepoy Chatta Singh V.C., of the 9th Bhopal Infantry	The Postman ca 1910

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