Peshawar

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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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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.