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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. | 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. | ||
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==Cemeteries== | ==Cemeteries== | ||
| + | Article [https://web.archive.org/web/20120701122516/http://pakhtun.com/index.php/about-pashtuns/history-of-pashtuns/gora-qabristan-a-vanashing-landmark "Peshawar’s Gora Qabristan : A Vanishing Landmark"] by Dr. Ali Jan written c 2010 www.pakhtun.com. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131121081612/http://www.geocities.ws/scn_pk/peshawar_cemetery_new.html 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) | ||
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[[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA (British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia)]] cemetery publications are | [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|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 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 | *''Peshawar Monumental Inscriptions II'' by Susan Farrington, 1991. More inscriptions from churches and other cemeteries. 168pp, profusely illustrated and plan | ||
| − | See [http:// | + | See [http://www.bacsa.org.uk/?page_id=875 BACSA Books]. |
| − | [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] | + | [[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. |
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| − | * | + | For some memorial inscriptions from Peshawar , see [http://www.indian-cemeteries.org Indian Cemeteries], 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 |
| − | + | *[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 | |
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| + | Also see "Historical books online", below. | ||
==Hospitals== | ==Hospitals== | ||
[[Image:Lady_Reading_Hospital_Peshawar.jpg|thumb|300px|Lady Reading Hospital]] | [[Image:Lady_Reading_Hospital_Peshawar.jpg|thumb|300px|Lady Reading Hospital]] | ||
| − | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Reading_Hospital Lady Reading Hospital](1924) | + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Reading_Hospital Lady Reading Hospital] (1924) |
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| + | ==Medical terminology== | ||
| + | "Peshawur fever" was malaria.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/memoirswithfulla00rossuoft#page/14/mode/2up Page 14] ''Memoirs, with a Full Account of the Great Malaria Problem and its Solution'' by Ronald Ross 1923 Archive.org</ref> | ||
==Forts== | ==Forts== | ||
[[Image:Balahisar_Peshawar.jpg|thumb|300px|Balahisar]] | [[Image:Balahisar_Peshawar.jpg|thumb|300px|Balahisar]] | ||
* [[Bala Hissar Fort, Peshawar|Balahisar]] | * [[Bala Hissar Fort, Peshawar|Balahisar]] | ||
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| + | ==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 == | ==External Links == | ||
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*[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.peshawardiocese.org/default.asp Diocese of Peshawar, Church of Pakistan] | + | *[http://www.khyberpakhtunkhwa.gov.pk/aboutus/Town-Places.php Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Town & Places] contains information about Peshawar (scroll down) |
| + | *[http://www.peshawardiocese.org/default.asp Diocese of Peshawar, Church of Pakistan] | ||
*[http://www.khyberlodge.co.uk/about-khyber-mainmenu-26.html Khyber [Masonic<nowiki>]</nowiki> Lodge, Peshawar] | *[http://www.khyberlodge.co.uk/about-khyber-mainmenu-26.html Khyber [Masonic<nowiki>]</nowiki> Lodge, Peshawar] | ||
| − | **[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. 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.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. |
| − | + | *[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) | ||
| + | *[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) | ||
====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 | ||
*[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.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3901783868/in/photostream Soldiers’ Married Quarters Peshawar] Postcard ( | + | *[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 | ||
| + | *[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 | ||
| + | **[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_043183-RE_171858.html Peshawar, Fort and Wireless Station, NWFP, post stamped 10.9.1930] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043183-VE_216170.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] | ||
| + | *1930 riots in Peshawar | ||
| + | **Photographs from the [[National Army Museum]]: | ||
| + | ***[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. | ||
| + | ***[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] | ||
| + | ***[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] | ||
| + | **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 | ||
| + | **[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=p3D4vLkAz8k&list=PL2FDA0D1DB6744C8A&index=9 Farewell to the horse parade, Peshawar, 1940] | ||
====Historical books online==== | ====Historical books online==== | ||
| + | *[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. | ||
| + | *''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://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 | |
| + | *[http://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/n49/mode/2up Peshawar Riot 23 April 1930] page 16 ''India in 1930-31'' archive.org | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 11:40, 20 March 2015
| Peshawar | |
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| 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 |
| Transport links | |
| FibiWiki Maps | |
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| See our interactive map of this location showing 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.
Contents
Spelling variants
Peshawer, Peshawur, Paishawar, Peyshawurr
Education
- Edwardes College[1]
- Islamia College (now University) (1913)
Churches
- St. John's Church (now Cathedral) (Garrison 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 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 Indian Cemeteries, including
- Monument to those who died 67th Battery Royal Field Artillery 1904-1906 at Tehkal Cemetery, Peshawar
- 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
- Lady Reading Hospital (1924)
Medical terminology
"Peshawur fever" was malaria.[2]
Forts
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
- Peshawar City Imperial Gazetteer of India
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Town & Places contains information about Peshawar (scroll down)
- Diocese of Peshawar, Church of Pakistan
- Khyber [Masonic] Lodge, Peshawar
- Peshawar Remembered by Walter Reeve (born 1934) whose father was in the Indian Army, and later the Pakistan Army. Another version www.pakhtun.com, and 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.
- PAF [previously RAF] Peshawar globalsecurity.org
- Peshawar Vale Hunt by Dr Ali Jan (archive.org link)
- Peshawar: Excerpts from Gertrude Bell's Diary (dated 22/01/1903 to 27/01/1903) Sarhad Conservation Network, now archived.
- RAF Peshawar rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014)
Images
- Visiting Peshawar – Scenes And Pictures Of Pakistan 2009 - Includes photos of St John’s Cathedral and the cemetery
- 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)
- Postcard: British Infantry Barracks Peshawar c 1910 imagesofasia.com
- Postcard: Soldiers' Bungalow [Barracks] Peshawar www.stamps-auction.com
- Postcard: Soldiers’ Married Quarters Peshawar flickr.com
- 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 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment to Adolf Feller of Switzerland
- Peshawar, NWFP, General view of Robert Barracks, post stamped 19.2 1928 with message
- Peshawar, Fort and Wireless Station, NWFP, post stamped 10.9.1930 with message
- Peshawar Cantt, Railway Station post stamped 24.9.1930 with message
- Peshawar, Double Deckers, The Soldiers Bungalows post stamped 1.2.1931 with message
- 1930 riots in Peshawar
- Photographs from the National Army Museum:
- Riots in Peshawar, 1930 A despatch rider was killed and set on fire, his body igniting the armoured car seen burning in this photograph.
- Troops and armoured car during 1930 riots
- Troops patrol during 1930 riots
- Images of articles from The Times 24-28 April 1930 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 militarian.com (retrieved 1 July 2014)[3]
- Photographs from the National Army Museum:
- YouTube videos from the National Army Museum
Historical books online
- 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.
- 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
- "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 Riot 23 April 1930 page 16 India in 1930-31 archive.org
References
- ↑ It is now under the jurisdiction of the Peshawar Diocese of the Church of Pakistan, see External Links above
- ↑ Page 14 Memoirs, with a Full Account of the Great Malaria Problem and its Solution by Ronald Ross 1923 Archive.org
- ↑ Military History Forum thread Peshawar 1930
