Welcome to Paper Jewels

Paper Jewels is postcards from the Raj (1892-1947) restored professionally and free to use. It grew out of the book Paper Jewels Postcards from the Raj (Mapin/Alkazi, 2018) by Omar Khan and associated exhibitions. Get a new Raj postcard everyday here, on Instagram and Facebook.

Group of famine stricken victims ca 1905	An Indian Bungalow ca 1903	Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji, President, 2nd Congress, Calcutta 1886 and 9th Congress, Lahore, 1893 ca 1905
Chalking the Doorstep, Madras ca 1905	Gardens on the Dahl Lake, Kashmir ca 1903	Ancient Buddhist Temple Gwalior ca 1904
The Imperial Delhi Durbar ca 1911	An Ideal Cycling Costume ca 1910	Rangoon Jail - Prisoners waiting for breakfast 1905
Dancing Girl - Jaipur ca 1910	Cultivators ca 1905	Empire of British India and Ceylon [Coins] ca 1905
An Indian Family, Karachi ca 1908	Greetings from India Ahmedabad Delhi ca 1900	The Great Burning Ghat in Benares 1898
Greetings from Bombay ca 1903	Chandulal's Car, Bolarum, Hyderabad ca 1905	Madras. Connemara Library. 1905
A Mohamedan dancing Girl in Attitude ca 1903	Hyderabad, The Char Minar ca 1903	Lahore. Wazir Khan's Mosque (Outer Part) ca 1905
Fire near Ry Station - Lahore ca 1905	A Mad Mulla (Religious Fanatic) with his Followers, N.W. Frontier ca 1930	Parsee Tower of Silence, Bombay ca 1903
Tanjore Palace ca 1905	The Wonderful Art of Taking Things Easy 1910	Sikh Akalis at Amritsar ca 1905
Not so bad. eh? what !! A bit rough at the end of the month though. ca 1908	Hindu Girl of the Period ca 1905	Calcutta ca 1897

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