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.

Poplars Avenue in Kashmir ca 1905	Hindu Temple (Monkey Temple) Kalbadevi Road 1907	JRE Hall Line Shipping - Karachi ca 1903
Krishna's Great Dance ca 1908	Mylapore Tank - Madras ca 1908	Serravallo's Tonic ca 1905
Native Constable ca 1908	Indien [India, back] 1911	Indien [India] 1911
Indian soldiers starting for the front ca 1918	Fisher Woman ca 1899	Elphinstone Street, Karachi ca 1903
Lucknow. La Martiniere ca 1908	Postman ca 1910	Eid Mubarak Pyramids ca 1935
Jeypore. An Eastern Cemetery ca 1905	Mt. Everest, Greetings from Darjeeling ca 1901	James Bazaar Street, Secundarabad ca 1905
Dancing Girls, Jaipur ca 1905	Sir J. N. Tata 1910	Greetings from Madras [Message] ca 1900
Greetings from Madras ca 1900	[Jhelum Recruiting] ca 1915	Japanese Explorer on Camel ca 1925
The Hooseinabad, Lucknow. 1905	Jaipur Palace - Inner Portion - H.H. The Maharaja	High Court, Madras, from South ca 1907
Huge Airship Shed, Airport - Karachi ca 1930	Hornby Road & the Floral Fountain, Bombay [message] ca 1907	The Boundary Line Between the British and Afghan Territory on the Border of Frontier, N.W.F.P.

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