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.

The Burning Ghat, Benares ca 1900	Lakeside View, Kandy, Ceylon. ca 1910	At The Dussera Mysore ca 1906
A model of Punjab beauty ca 1905	Band Stand, People's Park, Madras ca 1905	A Street Scene, Delhi ca 1909
7 False defense. 1907	9 Reconciliation at last 1907	10 New maid-servant 1907
8 Dismissed 1907	6. What is this 1907	1 Young Maid Servant 1907
2 At First Sight 1907	4. Hush! My Wife! My wife! 1907	5. Wife enraged 1907
3. How Sweet you are! 1907	Madras Date Palms ca 1905	City Line To and From India ca 1904
Simla, Annandale ca 1905	Betel Leaf Seller, Colombo ca 1905	Narsinghgarh, The Lake ca
Spring Morning at Kralyar, Dal Lake ca 1910	Main Street with Pigeons in the foreground, Jaipur ca 1907	A Ward in Plague Hospital showing Patients, Bombay. ca 1905
Damayanti ca 1905	Hindu Temple Colombo ca 1905	La Guerre Europeenne de 1914 [The European War 1914] ca 1914
London: India House ca 1930	Ladhakis and Yaks, Scinde Valley, Kashmir ca 1903	Goan Beauty ca 1908

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