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 Cave of Fakir of Api in Arsalkot ca 1938	CMS Medical Missions Islamabad ca 1903	With the Indian Expeditionary Force 1919
Camp Ali Musjid In The Late Afghan War 1919 ca 1919	King Emperor's Message to the British Troops from India ca 1915	Jahangiri Mahal, Agra Fort. ca 1907
Gateway of India, Showing Taj Mahal Hotel, Bombay ca 1930	Cashmere [House Boat] ca 1910	The Town Hall, City Jubbulpore [Jabalpur] ca 1908
India, Franco-British Exhibition, London 1908 1908	Camping in Kashmir ca 1920	Dreams in Stone, Temple of Halebid, Mysore State ca 1907
Camel Caravan in Karachi, India - November 1929 1929	Calcutta, Band Stand, Eden Gardens ca 1907	New Municipal Office Under Construction ca 1930
City and Third Bridge, Srinagar, Kashmir ca 1920	Dandy ca 1907	Final Murree Football Tournament 1909
Rope Bridge, Kashmir 1903	Gandhi Garden Karachi ca 1930	Srinagar. View from Tukht Hill. ca 1910
Lucknow. The Kaiser Bagh and Vinery Buildings. 1910	Frere Hall ca 1910	Coolies ca 1907
Bengali Lady ca 1907	Government House ca 1910	Catamaran ca 1905
Birthday Greetings from India 1943	Rai Mela Ram's Building, Lahore ca 1908	Rabindranath Tagore ca 1928

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