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<small>''For Naushera in the Punjab, see [[Rahim Yar Khan]].''</small>
<small>''For Naushera in the Punjab, see [[Rahim Yar Khan]].''</small>


'''Nowshera''' was a town and cantonment as well as tehsil of [[Peshawar District]] (later [[Peshawar Division]]). The town was on the route of [[North-Western Railway]] and the Grand Trunk (GT) Road. The population according to the 1901 census of India was 9,518.
'''Nowshera''' was a town and cantonment as well as tehsil of [[Peshawar District]] (later [[Peshawar Division]]). The town was on the route of [[North Western Railway]] and the Grand Trunk (GT) Road. The population according to the 1901 census of India was 9,518.


==Spelling Variants==
==Spelling Variants==
* Naushera  
Modern name: Nowshera<br>
Variants: Naushera/Nausherha/Naushahra


==Geography==
==Geography==
Nowshera was close to the Afghan border, twenty miles east of [[Peshawar]].  The town was the headquarters of the tahsil of Nowshera – a small tract of low-lying riverain land on both sides of the Kabul river, known as the Khalsa tappa, and of the Khattak pargana which includes the Khwarra-Nilab valley and is separated from it by the Khattak range, which culminates in the Ghaibana Sir (5,136 feet in height) and the sanitarium and [[Hill station|hill station]] of [[Cherat]].
Nowshera was twenty miles east of [[Peshawar]], on the Grand Trunk Road, on the way from Jahangira and Attock.  The town was the headquarters of the tahsil of Nowshera – a small tract of low-lying riverain land on both sides of the Kabul river, known as the Khalsa tappa, and of the Khattak pargana which includes the Khwarra-Nilab valley and is separated from it by the Khattak range, which culminates in the Ghaibana Sir (5,136 feet in height) and the sanitarium and [[Hill station|hill station]] of [[Cherat]].


==Cantonment==
==Cantonment==
In 1908 the Imperial Gazetteer of India remarked of the cantonment at Nowshera that it “stretches along the right bank of the Kabul river on a sandy plain, 3 miles in diameter, and is surrounded by low hills on all sides except the north, which is open towards the river. The garrison now consists of one British infantry regiment, two native cavalry and four infantry regiments, a mountain battery, and a bearer corps, belonging to the Peshawar division of the Northern Command. The Kabul river is crossed by a permanent bridge of boats, whence roads lead to [[Mardan]] and [[Charsadda]].  The iron road and railway bridge across the river was opened on December 1, 1903. The village of Naushahra Khurd, west of the cantonment, and the large village of Naushahra Kalān, on the north bank of the Kabul, are both outside cantonment limits. The head-quarters of the Naushahra tahsīl, with the police station, are in the former, 3 miles from the cantonment. The town contains a Government dispensary and a vernacular middle school, maintained by the District board."   
In 1908 the Imperial Gazetteer of India remarked of the cantonment at Nowshera that it “stretches along the right bank of the Kabul river on a sandy plain, 3 miles in diameter, and is surrounded by low hills on all sides except the north, which is open towards the river. The garrison now consists of one British infantry regiment, two native cavalry and four infantry regiments, a mountain battery, and a bearer corps, belonging to the Peshawar division of the Northern Command. The Kabul river is crossed by a permanent bridge of boats, whence roads lead to [[Mardan]] and [[Charsadda]].  The iron road and railway bridge across the river was opened on December 1, 1903. The village of Naushahra Khurd, west of the cantonment, and the large village of Naushahra Kalān, on the north bank of the Kabul, are both outside cantonment limits. The head-quarters of the Naushahra tahsīl, with the police station, are in the former, 3 miles from the cantonment. The town contains a Government dispensary and a vernacular middle school, maintained by the District board."   


==Cemeteries and other records==
==Cemeteries and other records==
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*881 Nowshera, Pakistan:        Christ Church: burials, 1897-1922  
*881 Nowshera, Pakistan:        Christ Church: burials, 1897-1922  
*882 Nowshera, Pakistan:        burials, 1922-1946  
*882 Nowshera, Pakistan:        burials, 1922-1946  
*883 Nowshera Cemetery, Pakistan:        Cemetery Register, 1858-1927
*883 Nowshera Cemetery, Pakistan:        Cemetery Register, 1858-1927


Also see "Historical books online", below.
==External lnks==
==External lnks==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowshera Nowshera] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowshera Nowshera] Wikipedia
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3907244861/  Photograph: British Infantry Lines, Nowshera], flickr.com, on another website labelled 1872
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3971106918/  1900 view of Nowshera cantonment] flickr.com
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/edanial/3116272468/  Photograph: Taj Building, Nowshera built 1920s] flickr.com
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/blueday2012/5800761350/  Military photographs Nowshera  c 1917] flickr.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_043164-RE_171877.html Nowshera, NWFP, Khartoum Barracks, post stamped 1929] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043164-VE_216151.html message]
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043165-RE_171876.html Nowshera, NWFP, YMCA] sent c 1929 with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043165-VE_216152.html message]
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043166-RE_171875.html Nowshera, NWFP, Ice Factory] sent c 1929 with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043166-VE_216153.html message] “a very old view”
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043170-RE_171871.html Nowshera, Railway Bridge on River Kabul,  on the way to Risalpur, post stamped 1929] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043170-VE_216157.html message]
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043171-RE_171870.html Nowshera, Pontoon Boat Bridge on River Kabul, showing the River in Flood poststamped 1929] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043171-VE_216158.html message]
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043169-RE_171872.html Nowshera, NWFP, River Kabul & Boat Bridge post stamped 1930] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043169-VE_216156.html message]
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043168-RE_171873.html Nowshera, NWFP, The Mall, post stamped 1930] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043168-VE_216155.html message] "The Artillery bks [barracks ?] are behind the trees on the right hand side".
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043173-RE_171868.html Nowshera, NWFP, Chital Relief Memorial 1895, sent c 1930] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043173-VE_216160.html message] “Every year a column goes up to Chitral. It takes six weeks from start to finish, the distance there & back is 365 miles, a stiff march”.
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043172-RE_171869.html Nowshera, The Church] sent c 1931 with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043172-VE_216159.html message]
*From the collection of  James Wilson, Royal Artillery 1940s WW2-1947 500px.com.
**[https://500px.com/photo/23071773/royal-artillery-9th-field-regiment-barracks-nowshera-india-1940s-by-scott-mcculloch Photograph: Royal Artillery, 9th Field Regiment Barracks, Nowshera 1940s WW2]
**[https://500px.com/photo/23071731/royal-artillery-camp-nowshera-india-ww2-by-scott-mcculloch Photograph: Royal Artillery Camp, 9th Field Regiment. Nowshera]
**[https://500px.com/photo/23071781/regimental-canteen-9th-field-regiment-royal-artillery-by-scott-mcculloch Photograph: Regimental Canteen, 9th Field Regiment, likely Nowshera]
**[https://500px.com/photo/23071739/regal-cinema-nowshera-nw-frontier-province-late-1940s-by-scott-mcculloch Photograph: Regal Cinema, Nowshera c 1946]
**[https://500px.com/photo/23071729/cinema-in-nw-frontier-province-india-late-1940s-by-scott-mcculloch Photograph: Cinema, likely Nowshera]
**[https://500px.com/photo/23071733/untitled-by-scott-mcculloch Photograph: Nowshera Railway Station, India. 1946]
===Historical books online===
*[http://archive.org/stream/northwestfrontie00calcuoft#page/162/mode/2up "Naushahra Town"] page  163 ''Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series North-West Frontier Province'' 1908 Archive.org
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_423.gif "Naushahra Town"]  ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 18, page 417.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=179 "Nowshera"] page 157 ''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
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Latest revision as of 08:26, 10 June 2016

Nowshera
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 34.015278°N 71.974722°E
Altitude:
Present Day Details
Place Name: Nowshera
State/Province: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, old NWFP
Country: Pakistan
Transport links
North Western Railway

For Naushera in the Punjab, see Rahim Yar Khan.

Nowshera was a town and cantonment as well as tehsil of Peshawar District (later Peshawar Division). The town was on the route of North Western Railway and the Grand Trunk (GT) Road. The population according to the 1901 census of India was 9,518.

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Nowshera
Variants: Naushera/Nausherha/Naushahra

Geography

Nowshera was twenty miles east of Peshawar, on the Grand Trunk Road, on the way from Jahangira and Attock. The town was the headquarters of the tahsil of Nowshera – a small tract of low-lying riverain land on both sides of the Kabul river, known as the Khalsa tappa, and of the Khattak pargana which includes the Khwarra-Nilab valley and is separated from it by the Khattak range, which culminates in the Ghaibana Sir (5,136 feet in height) and the sanitarium and hill station of Cherat.

Cantonment

In 1908 the Imperial Gazetteer of India remarked of the cantonment at Nowshera that it “stretches along the right bank of the Kabul river on a sandy plain, 3 miles in diameter, and is surrounded by low hills on all sides except the north, which is open towards the river. The garrison now consists of one British infantry regiment, two native cavalry and four infantry regiments, a mountain battery, and a bearer corps, belonging to the Peshawar division of the Northern Command. The Kabul river is crossed by a permanent bridge of boats, whence roads lead to Mardan and Charsadda. The iron road and railway bridge across the river was opened on December 1, 1903. The village of Naushahra Khurd, west of the cantonment, and the large village of Naushahra Kalān, on the north bank of the Kabul, are both outside cantonment limits. The head-quarters of the Naushahra tahsīl, with the police station, are in the former, 3 miles from the cantonment. The town contains a Government dispensary and a vernacular middle school, maintained by the District board."

Cemeteries and other records

The BACSA Archive at the British Library Mss F370 has items

  • 880 Nowshera, Pakistan: Christ Church: baptisms, 1859-1924
  • 881 Nowshera, Pakistan: Christ Church: burials, 1897-1922
  • 882 Nowshera, Pakistan: burials, 1922-1946
  • 883 Nowshera Cemetery, Pakistan: Cemetery Register, 1858-1927

Also see "Historical books online", below.

External lnks

Historical books online

  • "Naushahra Town" page 163 Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series North-West Frontier Province 1908 Archive.org
  • "Naushahra Town" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 18, page 417.
  • "Nowshera" page 157 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