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====Autobiographies/Biographies====
===Autobiographies/Biographies===
* Cabool Being a Personal Narrative by Sir Alexander Burnes C.B., 1842 [http://www.panhwar.com/rarebooks/Cabool.pdf Online version (pdf)]
* Cabool Being a Personal Narrative by Sir Alexander Burnes C.B., 1842 [http://www.panhwar.com/rarebooks/Cabool.pdf Online version (pdf)]
* Forty-one years in India by Frederick Sleigh Roberts [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16528 Online version]
* Forty-one years in India by Frederick Sleigh Roberts [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16528 Online version]
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* The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer by Nigel A. Collett 2005
* The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer by Nigel A. Collett 2005
* Scinde in the forties: Being the journal of letters of Colonel Keith Young (reprint)
* Scinde in the forties: Being the journal of letters of Colonel Keith Young (reprint)


===Diaries===
===Diaries===

Revision as of 11:17, 18 October 2010

I started Pakistan Genealogy Resource - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pakwgw/ but, due to lack of time, I am now slowing uploading most of that information onto this site instead.

My contributions are related to areas which now fall in Pakistan.

My Library

The following are books, gazetteers, reports from my personal library. Since I have not been able to review them, I cannot add them to the other section of this website, therefore for now, I am listing them here. If the actual version in available online, I have linked it.

Books

Baluchistan

  • A Petal from the Rose by Kekobad Ardeshir Marker 1985


NWFP

  • Peshawar City on the Frontier by SM Jaffar. (reprint by OUP)
  • Peshawar Historic City of the Frontier by Dr. Ahmad Hasan Dani
  • Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-west Frontier by Charles Allen 2001

Punjab

  • Imperial Rule in Punjab: The conquest and administration of Multan 1818-1881 by J Royal Roseberry, III. 1988
  • Mystique of Murree by Lala Rukh Shaukat 2006
  • The Punjab being a brief account of the country of the Sikhs. by Lt. Col Steinbach London, 1846 (reprint)
  • Lahore as it was Travelogue, 1860 by J.L. Kipling (reprint NCA, 2002)
  • Travels in Kashmir and the Panjab (Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints) by Charles Von Hugel
  • Brothers in the Raj: The Lives of John and Henry Lawrence by Harold Lee 2004


Sind

  • Karachi: Pleasure Gardens of a Raj City by Durdana Soomro 2007
  • Karachi During the British Era: Two Histories of a Modern City (reprint by OUP of two earlier books)
  • Kurrachee: Past, Present and Future by Alexander Baillie. (reprint Pak Herald Publications)
  • Visions of the Empire (Karachi) Pak Herald Publications 2004
  • City of Hyderabad, Sindh (712 - 1947) by Dr. Qammaruddin Bohra 2000
  • The Dual City: Karachi During the Raj by Yasmeen and Mihail Lari. 1997
  • McMurdo's Account of Sind by James McMurdo (reprint)


Kashmir

  • When Men and Mountains Meet: The Explorers of the Western Himalayas 1820-1875 by John Keay 1993


Autobiographies/Biographies

  • Cabool Being a Personal Narrative by Sir Alexander Burnes C.B., 1842 Online version (pdf)
  • Forty-one years in India by Frederick Sleigh Roberts Online version
  • Harvest from the desert the life and work of Sir Ganga Ram by Baba Pyare Lal Bedi (reprint NCA 2003)
  • Three months of my life by J. F. Foster 1873
  • The Memoirs of Seth Naomul Hotchand (reprint)
  • The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer by Nigel A. Collett 2005
  • Scinde in the forties: Being the journal of letters of Colonel Keith Young (reprint)

Diaries

  • Political Diaries of The Agent to the Governor-General, North-West Fribtier and Resident at Lahore (reprint)
  • Political Diaries of Lt. Reynell G. Taylor, Mr. P Sandys Melvill, Pandit Kunahya Lal, P.A. Vans Agnew (reprint)
  • (reprint)


Directories

  • The Karachi Residents Directory 1932 by The Daily Gazette. (reprint)


Gazetteers

Reprints by Sang-e-Meel, Lahore

Districts

  • Gazetteer of the Attock District 1930
  • Gazetteer of the Bannu District 1883 - 84
  • Gazetteer of the Chenab Colony 1904
  • Gazetteer of the Gujranwala District 1883 - 84
  • Gazetteer of the Gurdaspur District 1891-92
  • Gazetteer of Hazara 1907
  • Gazetteer of the Jhelum District 1904
  • Gazetteer of the Karachi District
  • Gazetteer of the Kohat District 1883 - 84
  • Gazetteer of the Lahore District 1883 - 84
  • Gazetteer of the Montgomery District 1883 - 84
  • Gazetteer of the Multan District 1923-24
  • Gazetter of Muzaffargarh District 1929
  • Gazetteer of the Peshawar District 1897 - 98
  • Gazetteer of the Shahpur District 1897

Provinces

  • Imperial Gazetteer Provincial Series Baluchistan
  • Gazetteer of the Province of Sind 1876. Online version (pdf)


Military

Reprint versions by Sang-e-Meel, Lahore

  • A Sketch of The Siege of Mooltan by John Jones Cole. 1849
  • A Narrative of Events in Chitral Swat and Bajour. The Chitral Campaign by HC Thomson
  • From the Black Mountain to Waziristan by Col. H.C. Wylly
  • Britain's Forgotten Wars: colonial campaigns of the 19th century by Ian Hernon 2006
  • Afghan Wars: And the North-West Frontier 1839-1947 by Michael Barthorp 2002
  • The Afghan Wars, 1839-42 and 1878-80 by Archibald Forbes Online version


Photographs

  • From Kashmir to Kabul: The Photographs of Burke and Baker, 1860-1900 by Omar A. Khan 2002


Reports/Agreements/Treaties

  • Colonial Reports on Pakistan Frontier Tribal Areas. Edited and Introduced by Robert Nichols. OUP, Karachi
  • Treaties, Engagements and Sanads relating to the North West Frontier Province, Pakistan Study Area, University of Peshawar.

Images

The following images are used here with permission from Agha Waseem Ahmed (commoner28th). They are licenced under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0. If you use any, please email him with details of their usage: http://www.flickr.com/photos/commoner/

Chappar Rift Bridge
Lansdowne Bridge, behind Ayub Bridge
Victoria Tower, Jacobabad
John Jacob's grave, Jacobabad
Tunnel near Mushkaf Station, Baluchistan