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Paper Jewels : Postcards from the Raj, Hardback Book

Paper Jewels : Postcards from the Raj Hardback

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Paper Jewels is the story of postcards during the Raj, and covers India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Burma.

It is the first book on the subject and contains some of the most beautiful and popular postcards telling the stories of the first postcard publishers between 1892 and 1947.

The essays cover the major cities and regions important to postcard publishing and the key themes-from dancers to religion, to tea, soap, famines, fakirs, humour and warfare. The volume uncovers such gems as the early postcards of the great Indian painter M V Dhurandhar and the Ravi Varma Press, the exceptional work of an early Austrian lithographer in Kolkata and a German one in Mumbai.

Many of the images in the book have never been published since their first runs a century ago.

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