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==Spelling variants==
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Peshawer, Peshawur, Paishawar, Peyshawurr
Peshawer, Peshawur, Paishawar, Peyshawurr
==FIBIS Resources==
*[http://gallery.fibis.org/index.php?/tags/37-peshawar Images of Peshawar in FIBIS Gallery]
*[http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Category:Peshawar_images Images of Peshawar in Fibiwiki]


==Education==
==Education==
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*''Peshawar Monumental Inscriptions II'' by Susan Farrington, 1991.    More inscriptions from churches and other cemeteries. 168pp, profusely illustrated and plan
*''Peshawar Monumental Inscriptions II'' by Susan Farrington, 1991.    More inscriptions from churches and other cemeteries. 168pp, profusely illustrated and plan


See [http://indian-cemeteries.org/bacsa/html/bacsa_books.html BACSA Books].
See [https://www.bacsa.org.uk/product-category/cemetery-record-books/ BACSA Cemetery record books].
    
    
[[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] are in the process of putting the indexes to its cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.
[[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] have put some indexes to its cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse at [http://bacsa.frontis.co/bin/index.php BACSA Search]. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.


The [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA Archive]] at the British Library Mss F370 has items which may also be contained in the above books
The [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA Archive]] at the British Library Mss F370 has items which may also be contained in the above books. See [http://www.bacsa.org.uk/?page_id=697 BACSA Cemetery files] and select Pakistan.
*884 Peshawar, Pakistan: burials 1851-1864; register of graves, 1887-1888
*885 Peshawar, Pakistan: burials, 1864-1870
*886 Peshawar, Pakistan: burials, 1870-1879
*887 Peshawar and Cherat, Pakistan: burials at Peshawar, 1879-1890; burials at Cherat, 1879-1887
*888 Peshawar, Pakistan: burials, 1890-1933


For some  memorial inscriptions from Peshawar , see [http://www.indian-cemeteries.org Indian Cemeteries], including
For some  memorial inscriptions from Peshawar , see [https://web.archive.org/web/20160910044613/http://indian-cemeteries.org/monument_list.asp?town=Peshawar&cem=Tehkal%20Cemetery Monuments at Tehkal Cemetery, Peshawar], including
*[http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/viewimage.asp?mode=mon&ID=301 Monument to those who died 67th Battery Royal Field Artillery 1904-1906] at Tehkal Cemetery, Peshawar  
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071116210647/http://indian-cemeteries.org/searchresults.asp?mode=mon&ID=314 Monument to those who died No 6 Mountain Battery Royal Garrison Artillery 1914-1921] at Tehkal Cemetery, Peshawar
*[http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/viewimage.asp?mode=mon&ID=314 Monument to those who died No 6 Mountain Battery Royal Garrison Artillery 1914-1921] at Tehkal Cemetery, Peshawar
 
Also see "Historical books online", below.


==Hospitals==
==Hospitals==
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==External Links ==
==External Links ==
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V20_130.gif  Peshawar City] Imperial Gazetteer of India<br>
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V20_130.gif  Peshawar City] Imperial Gazetteer of India<br>
*[http://www.khyberpakhtunkhwa.gov.pk/aboutus/Town-Places.php Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Town & Places] contains information about Peshawar (scroll down)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160517054056/http://www.khyberpakhtunkhwa.gov.pk/aboutus/Town-Places.php Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Town & Places] contains information about Peshawar (scroll down). Archived page at May 2016.
*[http://www.peshawardiocese.org/default.asp Diocese of Peshawar, Church of Pakistan]
*[https://peshawardiocese.org Diocese of Peshawar, Church of Pakistan]
*[http://www.khyberlodge.co.uk/about-khyber-mainmenu-26.html Khyber [Masonic<nowiki>]</nowiki> Lodge, Peshawar]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160201022317/http://www.thefridaytimes.com/beta3/tft/article.php?issue=20121026&page=28  "A possible Peshawar"] by Albert J Godlin October 26, 2012 ''The Friday Times'', now an archived webpage.  Contains details of the British clubs, including the largest, the Peshawar Club, cinemas and churches.
**[http://www.khyberlodge.co.uk/about-khyber-mainmenu-26/peshawar-remembered-mainmenu-43.html Peshawar Remembered] by Walter Reeve (born 1934) whose father was in the Indian Army, and later the Pakistan Army. [http://www.pakhtun.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=36%3Ahistory&id=88%3Apeshawar-remembered-walter-reeve&Itemid=90  Another version] www.pakhtun.com, and  [http://web.archive.org/web/20090829075530/http://geocities.com/scn_pk/peshawar_remembered.html  another version] (archived). The recollections of an English schoolboy growing up in Peshawar around the time of partition. See [[Murree]] for the author's memories of Murree.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160324010242/http://www.khyberlodge.co.uk/about-khyber-mainmenu-26 Khyber [Masonic<nowiki>]</nowiki> Lodge, Peshawar], now an archived webpage
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20090829075530/http://geocities.com/scn_pk/peshawar_remembered.html "Peshawar Remembered"] by Walter Reeve (born 1934) whose father was in the Indian Army, and later the Pakistan Army. The recollections of an English schoolboy growing up in Peshawar around the time of partition. See [[Murree]] for the author's memories of Murree.
*[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/pakistan/peshawar-ab.htm PAF <nowiki>[</nowiki>previously RAF<nowiki>]</nowiki> Peshawar] globalsecurity.org
*[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/pakistan/peshawar-ab.htm PAF <nowiki>[</nowiki>previously RAF<nowiki>]</nowiki> Peshawar] globalsecurity.org
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131121052603/http://www.geocities.ws/scn_pk/peshawar_vale_hunt.html  Peshawar Vale Hunt] by Dr Ali Jan (archive.org link)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20171116081644/http://www.geocities.ws:80/scn_pk/peshawar_vale_hunt.html  Peshawar Vale Hunt] by Dr Ali Jan, now archived.  
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20081002070800/http://www.geocities.com/scn_pk/gertrude.html Peshawar: Excerpts from Gertrude Bell's Diary (dated 22/01/1903 to 27/01/1903)] Sarhad Conservation Network, now archived.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20081002070800/http://www.geocities.com/scn_pk/gertrude.html Peshawar: Excerpts from Gertrude Bell's Diary (dated 22/01/1903 to 27/01/1903)] Sarhad Conservation Network, now archived.
*[http://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-P.htm#Peshawar RAF Peshawar] rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014)
'''Missionaries'''
*[http://anglicanhistory.org/india/tphughes/clark2002.pdf "Thomas Patrick Hughes, Missionary to British India: The Class Ceiling"] by Elizabeth Hughes Clark 2002 anglicanhistory.org. Hughes was a missionary in Peshawar 1865-1884 with the Church Missionary Society (CMS). He was the author of ''Khalid-i-Afghani'', Being a Selection of Pushto Prose and Poetry for the Use of Students, 1873, which became the text book for the Pakhto Examination and ''Notes on Muhammadanism'' 1875 [https://archive.org/details/notesonmuhammada00hughrich  2nd edition , revised and enlarged 1877] Archive.org. He is also mentioned in the account by the Rev. Worthington Jukes, refer below.
====Images====
====Images====
*[http://thevelvetrocket.com/2009/11/25/visiting-peshawar-scenes-and-pictures-of-pakistan Visiting Peshawar – Scenes And Pictures Of Pakistan] 2009 - Includes photos of St John’s Cathedral and the cemetery
*[http://thevelvetrocket.com/2009/11/25/visiting-peshawar-scenes-and-pictures-of-pakistan Visiting Peshawar – Scenes And Pictures Of Pakistan] 2009 - Includes photos of St John’s Cathedral and the cemetery
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Re7ixChJUvUC&pg=PA53 Plan of the Peshawar Cantonment 1870]  page 53 ''The Bungalow in Twentieth-Century India'' by Madhavi Desai, Miki Desai, Jon Lang Google Books
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3912689013/ Photograph of Peshawar 1878]  A view across the cantonment towards St John's Church and the distant mountains of the Khyber Pass, taken in 1878 by John Burke. (Flickr)
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3912689013/ Photograph of Peshawar 1878]  A view across the cantonment towards St John's Church and the distant mountains of the Khyber Pass, taken in 1878 by John Burke. (Flickr)
*[http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/pakistan/barracks-peshawar.html Postcard: British Infantry Barracks Peshawar c 1910] imagesofasia.com
 
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-peshawar-nwfp-soldiers-bungalows-old-postcard-british-indian-colour-for-sale-124467 Postcard:  Soldiers' Bungalow <nowiki>[</nowiki>Barracks<nowiki>]</nowiki> Peshawar]  www.stamps-auction.com
*Photographs: The Peshawar Vale Hunt, 1896: [https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2001-02-335-30 A] and [https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2001-02-335-32 B] National Army Museum
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3901783868/in/photostream Postcard: Soldiers’ Married Quarters Peshawar]  flickr.com
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3901783868/in/photostream Postcard: Soldiers’ Married Quarters Peshawar]  flickr.com
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-old-colour-postcard-the-mall-showing-station-hospital-peshawar-n-w-f-p--for-sale-132083 Postcard: The Mall showing  Station Hospital Peshawar] www.stamps-auction.com
*From a collection of postcards at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, sent by F.G. Prew, a soldier, probably in the [[56th Regiment of Foot| 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment]] to Adolf Feller of Switzerland
*From a collection of postcards at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, sent by F.G. Prew, a soldier, probably in the [[56th Regiment of Foot| 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment]] to Adolf Feller of Switzerland
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043188-RE_171853.html Peshawar, NWFP, General view of Robert Barracks, post stamped 19.2 1928] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043188-VE_216175.html message]
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043188-RE_171853.html Peshawar, NWFP, General view of Robert Barracks, post stamped 19.2 1928] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043188-VE_216175.html message]
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**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043177-RE_171864.html Peshawar Cantt, Railway Station post stamped 24.9.1930] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043177-VE_216164.html message]
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043177-RE_171864.html Peshawar Cantt, Railway Station post stamped 24.9.1930] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043177-VE_216164.html message]
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043193-RE_171848.html Peshawar, Double Deckers, The Soldiers Bungalows post stamped 1.2.1931] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043193-VE_216180.html message]
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043193-RE_171848.html Peshawar, Double Deckers, The Soldiers Bungalows post stamped 1.2.1931] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043193-VE_216180.html message]
*Photographs from the [[National Army Museum]]:
*1930 riots in Peshawar
**[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?q=searchType%3Dsimple%26acc%3D1977-02-39&pos=0&total=4&page=1&acc=1977-02-39-2 Riots in Peshawar, 1930] A despatch rider was killed and set on fire, his body igniting the armoured car seen burning in this photograph.
**Photographs from the [[National Army Museum]]:
**[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?q=searchType%3Dsimple%26acc%3D1977-02-39&pos=3&total=4&acc=1977-02-39-1 Troops and armoured car during 1930 riots]
***[https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1977-02-39-2 Riots in Peshawar, 1930] A despatch rider was killed and set on fire, his body igniting the armoured car seen burning in this photograph.
**[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?q=searchType%3Dsimple%26acc%3D1977-02-39&pos=1&total=4&acc=1977-02-39-3 Troops patrol during 1930 riots]
***[https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1977-02-39-1 Riots in Peshawar, 1930] showing Troops and armoured car.
***[https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1977-02-39-3 Riot control duties in Peshawar, 1930] showing  Troops patrolling.
**Images of articles from ''The Times'' 24-28 April 1930 [http://www.militarian.com/attachments/24th-april-jpg.3368/ 1], [http://www.militarian.com/attachments/25th-april-1-jpg.3369/ 2], [http://www.militarian.com/attachments/25th-april-2-jpg.3370/ 3], [http://www.militarian.com/attachments/26th-april-jpg.3371/ 4], [http://www.militarian.com/attachments/28th-april-jpg.3372/ 5] militarian.com (retrieved 1 July 2014)<ref>Military History Forum thread [http://www.militarian.com/threads/peshawar-1930.5327/ Peshawar 1930]</ref>
*YouTube videos from the National Army Museum
*YouTube videos from the National Army Museum
**[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw_tRqklKpw&list=PL2FDA0D1DB6744C8A&index=8 Peshawar Vale Hunt Point to Point, c 1939]  
**[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw_tRqklKpw&list=PL2FDA0D1DB6744C8A&index=8 Peshawar Vale Hunt Point to Point, c 1939]  
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====Historical books online====
====Historical books online====
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.278643/2015.278643.Central-Asia#page/n549/mode/2up "Peshawar"] page 548 ''Central Asia Part I: A contribution towards the better knowledge of the topography, ethnology, resources, & history of the North-West Frontier of British India complied (for political and military reference). Volume II'', by C M Macgregor 1873. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/gazetteer-peshawar-1883/page/n7/mode/2up ''Gazetteer of the Peshawar District 1883-4''] A volume in the series of Punjab District Gazetteers.  Archive.org.
:''Gazetteer of the Peshawar District 1897-98''.  A volume in the series of Punjab District Gazetteers. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35247  Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
* ''N W F Province Gazetteers Peshawar District Vol.a 1931''.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280933  Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xagyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA428 Peshawur in 1854] page 428  ‪''Wall-Street to Cashmere‬: ‪A Journal of Five Years in Asia, Africa and Europe''‬ by John B Ireland 1859 Google Books. ([https://archive.org/stream/wallstreettocash1859irel#page/436/mode/2up  page 436] (missing from the previous file)). The author was an American lawyer born in 1823.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.0514/mode/2up ''Selections from the Public Correspondence of the Punjab Government, Volume V, No 2: Papers regarding the Insalubrity of the Peshawur Valley''] 1859. Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/390/mode/2up Peshawur] page  391 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/sporttravelinind00bago/page/4/mode/2up Peshawar Vale Hounds] c 1870s page 4, ''Sport and travel in India and Central America'' by A. G.  Bagot late 60th Rifles. 1897 Archive.org.
*''Memorials of the life and letters of Major-General Sir Herbert B. Edwardes'' by his Wife  1886 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/memorialsoflife01edwa  Volume I] [https://archive.org/details/memorialsoflife02edwa Volume II]. Edwardes was Commissioner of Peshawar during the [[Indian Mutiny]].
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/punjabsindhmissi00clar#page/160/mode/2up "Peshawur"], page 160 ''The Punjab and Sindh missions of the Church Missionary Society Giving an account of their foundation and progress for thirty-three years, from 1852 to 1884. Second edition, considerably enlarged, of a book entitled "Thirty years of missionary work of the C.M.S. in the Punjab and Sindh"'' by Robert Clark 1885 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/punjabsindhmissi00clar#page/160/mode/2up "Peshawur"], page 160 ''The Punjab and Sindh missions of the Church Missionary Society Giving an account of their foundation and progress for thirty-three years, from 1852 to 1884. Second edition, considerably enlarged, of a book entitled "Thirty years of missionary work of the C.M.S. in the Punjab and Sindh"'' by Robert Clark 1885 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/n49/mode/2up  Peshawar Riot 23 April 1930]  page 16 ''India in 1930-31'' archive.org
*[http://anglicanhistory.org/india/jukes1925/ ''Reminiscences of Missionary Work In Amritsar 1872-1873 and on the Afghan Frontier In Peshawar 1873-1890''] by the Rev. Worthington Jukes 1925. anglicanhistory.org.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=171 "Peshawar District"], page 149 ''A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest Part 1'' by Miles Irving (1910) Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/scalpelswordstre0000unse/page/130/mode/2up Peshawar] page 130 ''Scalpel, sword and stretcher : forty years of work and play'' by Colonel Robert J Blackham [1931] Archive.org Books to Borrow. The author was in India  c 1897-1903, and 1908-1915. Page 135-136 mentions the Peshawar Vale Hunt.
*[http://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/n49/mode/2up  Peshawar Riot 23 April 1930]  page 16 ''India in 1930-31'' Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.275121/2015.275121.Imperial-Policing#page/n263/mode/2up  "Peshawar District 1930"], Chapter 10, page 253 ''Imperial Policing''  by Major-General Sir Charles W Gwynn 1939 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/wayoftransgresso00fars/page/582 Peshawar, 1930], page 583 ''The Way of a Transgressor'' by Negley Farson 1936 Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.76543/page/n3 2nd file] Archive.org.  The India chapters continue to page 591. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negley_Farson Negley Farson] Wikipedia. The author was then  an American foreign correspondent,  one of the most renowned of his day.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.449186 ''Official History of Operations on the N.-W. Frontier of India, 1920-35'']  by General Staff Army Headquarters, India 1945. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.  Includes some content about the 1930 riots.
:It is also available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/official-history-of-operations-on-the-north-west-frontier-of-india-1920-1935/ ''Official History Of Operations On The North-West Frontier Of India 1920-1935''] Naval & Military Press</ref> which in turn is available as part of an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.<ref name=NWF>[https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvs1LINNg2y ''Official History of Operations on the NW Frontier of India''] fold3 (located in Military books/India). Consists of 2 books.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527935 ''Seven Cantonments''] by Major SEG Ponder c 1938. Archive.org. The author was an Officer in the Royal Artillery, based in the North-West Frontier region, in the c 1930s including Peshawar.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1969-peshawar-historic-city-of-the-frontier-by-dani-s-pdf/ ''Peshawar - Historic City of the Frontier''] by Ahmad Hasan Dani 1969. Pdf download,  PAHAR-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3367/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].  [https://archive.org/details/peshawarhistoric0000dani/page/n3/mode/2up 2002 reprint edition] Archive.org books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[http://pahar.in/pahar/2002-from-kashmir-to-kabul-the-photographs-of-john-burke-and-william-baker-1860-1900-by-khan-pdf/  ''From Kashmir to Kabul: The photographs of John Burke and William Baker 1860-1900''] by Omar Khan 2002. Download from Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). Includes chapters about  Peshawar, [[Murree]], [[Kashmir]], the [[2nd Afghan War| Second Afghan War]],  [[Lahore]].


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Peshawar
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 34.015112°N 71.582634°E
Altitude: 510 m (1,673 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Peshawar
State/Province: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, old NWFP
Country: Pakistan
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places of interest during the British period
[xxxxx Peshawar]



During the British period Peshawar was the capital of North West Frontier Province and Peshawar District from 1901 until 1947. It was part of Punjab before then.

Spelling variants

Peshawer, Peshawur, Paishawar, Peyshawurr

FIBIS Resources

Education

Churches

St John's Church

Cemeteries

Article "Peshawar’s Gora Qabristan : A Vanishing Landmark" by Dr. Ali Jan written c 2010 www.pakhtun.com. Peshawar's Historic Cemetery by Dr Ali Jan. Contains some of the same text, but also includes information about the 1918 flu pandemic. (archive.org links)

BACSA (British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia) cemetery publications are

  • Peshawar Cemetery, Pakistan by Susan Farrington, 1988 (2nd reprint 2001). c900 MIs dating from 1849. 195pp, profusely illustrated and plans
  • Peshawar Monumental Inscriptions II by Susan Farrington, 1991. More inscriptions from churches and other cemeteries. 168pp, profusely illustrated and plan

See BACSA Cemetery record books.

BACSA have put some indexes to its cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse at BACSA Search. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.

The BACSA Archive at the British Library Mss F370 has items which may also be contained in the above books. See BACSA Cemetery files and select Pakistan.

For some memorial inscriptions from Peshawar , see Monuments at Tehkal Cemetery, Peshawar, including

Also see "Historical books online", below.

Hospitals

Lady Reading Hospital

Medical terminology

"Peshawur fever" was malaria.[2]

Forts

Balahisar

The hill cantonment at Cherat

Cherat is a cantonment located 34 miles south east from the city of Peshawar at an elevation of 4,500 feet on the west of the Khattak range.

External Links

Missionaries

Images

Historical books online

  • "Peshawar" page 548 Central Asia Part I: A contribution towards the better knowledge of the topography, ethnology, resources, & history of the North-West Frontier of British India complied (for political and military reference). Volume II, by C M Macgregor 1873. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
  • Gazetteer of the Peshawar District 1883-4 A volume in the series of Punjab District Gazetteers. Archive.org.
Gazetteer of the Peshawar District 1897-98. A volume in the series of Punjab District Gazetteers. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
  • N W F Province Gazetteers Peshawar District Vol.a 1931. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
  • Peshawur in 1854 page 428 ‪Wall-Street to Cashmere‬: ‪A Journal of Five Years in Asia, Africa and Europe‬ by John B Ireland 1859 Google Books. (page 436 (missing from the previous file)). The author was an American lawyer born in 1823.
  • Selections from the Public Correspondence of the Punjab Government, Volume V, No 2: Papers regarding the Insalubrity of the Peshawur Valley 1859. Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset
  • Peshawur page 391 Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations 1864 Archive.org
  • Peshawar Vale Hounds c 1870s page 4, Sport and travel in India and Central America by A. G. Bagot late 60th Rifles. 1897 Archive.org.
  • Memorials of the life and letters of Major-General Sir Herbert B. Edwardes by his Wife 1886 Archive.org Volume I Volume II. Edwardes was Commissioner of Peshawar during the Indian Mutiny.
  • "Peshawur", page 160 The Punjab and Sindh missions of the Church Missionary Society Giving an account of their foundation and progress for thirty-three years, from 1852 to 1884. Second edition, considerably enlarged, of a book entitled "Thirty years of missionary work of the C.M.S. in the Punjab and Sindh" by Robert Clark 1885 Archive.org
  • Reminiscences of Missionary Work In Amritsar 1872-1873 and on the Afghan Frontier In Peshawar 1873-1890 by the Rev. Worthington Jukes 1925. anglicanhistory.org.
  • "Peshawar District", page 149 A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest Part 1 by Miles Irving (1910) Hathi Trust Digital Library
  • Peshawar page 130 Scalpel, sword and stretcher : forty years of work and play by Colonel Robert J Blackham [1931] Archive.org Books to Borrow. The author was in India c 1897-1903, and 1908-1915. Page 135-136 mentions the Peshawar Vale Hunt.
  • Peshawar Riot 23 April 1930 page 16 India in 1930-31 Archive.org
  • "Peshawar District 1930", Chapter 10, page 253 Imperial Policing by Major-General Sir Charles W Gwynn 1939 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
  • Peshawar, 1930, page 583 The Way of a Transgressor by Negley Farson 1936 Archive.org Lending Library. 2nd file Archive.org. The India chapters continue to page 591. Negley Farson Wikipedia. The author was then an American foreign correspondent, one of the most renowned of his day.
  • Official History of Operations on the N.-W. Frontier of India, 1920-35 by General Staff Army Headquarters, India 1945. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes some content about the 1930 riots.
It is also available in a reprint edition[4] which in turn is available as part of an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.[5]

References

  1. It is now under the jurisdiction of the Peshawar Diocese of the Church of Pakistan, see External Links above
  2. Page 14 Memoirs, with a Full Account of the Great Malaria Problem and its Solution by Ronald Ross 1923 Archive.org
  3. Military History Forum thread Peshawar 1930
  4. Official History Of Operations On The North-West Frontier Of India 1920-1935 Naval & Military Press
  5. Official History of Operations on the NW Frontier of India fold3 (located in Military books/India). Consists of 2 books.