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*[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.
*[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/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]].


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 05:11, 14 November 2022

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.
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.