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== History ==
== History ==
[[Battle of Khyber Pass]] 1842
[[Battle of Khyber Pass]] 1842
==Also see==
*[[Khyber Ropeway Company]]
*[[Khyber Railway]]


==Locations within the Pass==
==Locations within the Pass==
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* [[Fort Maude]]
* [[Fort Maude]]


== External Links ==
== External links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_Pass Khyber Pass] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_Pass Khyber Pass] Wikipedia
*[http://www.world66.com/asia/southasia/pakistan/khyberpass/lib/gallery Photo Gallery] www.world66.com
*[http://kp.gov.pk/page/townplaces Khyber Pass: Town & Places] kp.gov.pk
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140811131347/http://asc-centralasia.edu.pk/Issue_61/08-CONSTRUCTION_OF_ROADS_AND_RAILWAYS.html "Construction of Roads and Railways in the Khyber Pass during the British period: A Positive Side-Effect of British Colonial Rule"] by Javed Iqbal ''Central Asia Journal No. 61'' [c 2007?] University of Peshawar, now archived.
*[https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/ic/id/60 Photograph: Military garrison at Landi Kotal, ca. 1899] University of Washington Libraries
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/northampton_museum/5693028856/in/set-72157626659014008 View Of The Khyber Pass From Shagai Fort] from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/northampton_museum/sets/72157626659014008/with/5693028856/  the second album of  Private J W Linley] of the 2nd Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment compiled whilst serving in India 1923-1938.  flickr.com
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/northampton_museum/5693028856/in/set-72157626659014008 View Of The Khyber Pass From Shagai Fort] from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/northampton_museum/sets/72157626659014008/with/5693028856/  the second album of  Private J W Linley] of the 2nd Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment compiled whilst serving in India 1923-1938.  flickr.com
*[http://mattoid.com/data/gifs/military/Shagai_Fort.gif Postcard of Shagai Fort with the Khyber Hills in the background NWFP]  mattoid.com
*[http://mattoid.com/data/gifs/military/Shagai_Fort.gif Postcard of Shagai Fort with the Khyber Hills in the background NWFP]  mattoid.com
* Photographs taken in the 1920s from the [http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_results.aspx?orig=%2Fresearch%2Fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&searchText=Lynch+album&fromDate=&fromadbc=ad&toDate=&toadbc=ad&x=14&y=16  Lynch Album], British Museum. The photographer was Hugh Dermot Lynch who served with the [[North Western Railway]] as a Transportation Officer. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Photographs taken in the 1920s from the collection of [https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/search?agent=Hugh%20Dermont%20Lynch Hugh Dermot Lynch] British Museum.   Lynch served with the [[North Western Railway]] as a Transportation Officer. Click on the images to enlarge.
**[http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1498681&partid=1&searchText=Lynch+album&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=1 Shagai Fort in the Khyber Pass]
**[https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1498681&partId=1&searchText=Lynch+album&page=1 Shagai Fort in the Khyber Pass]
**[http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1498616&partid=1&searchText=Lynch+album&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=3   The army camp at  Landi Kotal]
**[https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1498616&partId=1&searchText=Lynch+album&page=1   The army camp at  Landi Kotal]
**[http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1498561&partid=1&searchText=Lynch+album&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=2 Landi Khana 1]
**[https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1498561&partId=1&searchText=Lynch+album&page=1 Landi Khana 1] Photograph of the railway station, army camp and the road to Kabul.
**[http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1498614&partid=1&searchText=Lynch+album&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=3 Landi Khana 2]
**[https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1498614&partId=1&searchText=Lynch+album&page=1 Landi Khana 2] Photograph of the Gurkha camp and railway station at Landi Khana.
*[https://www.facebook.com/QissaKhwani/photos_stream#!/photo.php?fbid=214331602033060&set=pb.173386152794272.-2207520000.1361624347&type=3&theater  Photograph: Durand Line at Torkhum between Afghanistan and British India (border crossing point)] Qissa Khwani on Facebook
*[https://www.facebook.com/archive150/photos_stream#!/photo.php?fbid=579757152049367&set=pb.301806946511057.-2207520000.1364691958&type=3&theater Photograph: c 1930s: Khyber Pass] Archive150 on Facebook
*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.  
*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_043231-RE_171811.html The boundary between the Afghan & British territory on the NW Frontier], (but not a border crossing point), post marked 1928 [[Landi Kotal]] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043231-VE_216217.html  reverse side]
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043231-RE_171811.html The boundary between the Afghan & British territory on the NW Frontier], (but not a border crossing point), post marked 1928 [[Landi Kotal]] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043231-VE_216217.html  reverse side]
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043201-RE_171840.html  The Boundary Line <nowiki>[border crossing point]</nowiki> between British and Afghan Territory on the Border of Frontier NWFP], post stamped 14.7.1930,  [[Nowshera]] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043201-VE_216188.html message] “The native sentry on duty will let no one pass beyond this board without a passport”.
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043201-RE_171840.html  The Boundary Line <nowiki>[border crossing point]</nowiki> between British and Afghan Territory on the Border of Frontier NWFP], post stamped 14.7.1930,  [[Nowshera]] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043201-VE_216188.html message] “The native sentry on duty will let no one pass beyond this board without a passport”.
*[http://500px.com/photo/23071763 Frontier of India 1946] Captioned " Photo taken by my Grandfather, James Wilson, serving with the Royal Artillery in India during WW2". 500px.com. The same image has been posted on [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=594467377245011&set=a.560245220667227.130541.301806946511057&type=1&permPage=1 Archive150 on Facebook], with comments
*[http://500px.com/photo/23071763 Frontier of India 1946] Captioned " Photo taken by my Grandfather, James Wilson, serving with the Royal Artillery in India during WW2". 500px.com.  
*[https://500px.com/photo/23071759/khyber-pass-north-west-frontier-province-by-scott-mcculloch Photograph : Kyber Pass] 1940s from the collection of  James Wilson, Royal Artillery. 500px.com.
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ySdSjoQHQ Roving Report: North Western Frontier (2)] YouTube video, taken c 1960? in the vicinity of the Khyber Pass. Includes images of British regimental crests carved in the rock face.
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ySdSjoQHQ Roving Report: North Western Frontier (2)] YouTube video, taken c 1960? in the vicinity of the Khyber Pass. Includes images of British regimental crests carved in the rock face.
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2006-09/1158835365 post] mentions visiting the Khyber Pass area as a child c 1938
*[http://www.25thlondon.com/vcalbum/vc2.html 2007 photograph of regimental plaques, Khyber Pass] by Valerie Cliff www.25thlondon.com
==== Historical Books on-line ====
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180221123519/http://www.maverickpakistanis.com/wp-content/themes/iGreatBlack/book/books/khyber/4.asp  Bibliography: Publications on the Khyber] maverickpakistanis.com, now archived.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/northwestfrontie00calcuoft#page/226/mode/2up Khyber] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'' 1908
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2OOyU9Cv84&t=4135s YouTube video] of the 1953 movie ''Rogue‘s March'',  a 'spiffing yarn' type movie, much of it filmed on location in the Khyber Pass. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045097/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Cast details and reviews] imdb.com.
 
==== Historical books online ====
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49238 ''The Khyber''] by Edward A. Morphy. 1899  Full title: ''The Khyber: a Sketch of the Pass, its Establishment, Physical Features and Recent History …and some Hints to Travellers''. Archive.org,  Digital Library of India Collection
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/northwestfrontie00calcuoft#page/226/mode/2up Khyber] page 227  ''North-West Frontier Province, Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series'' 1908 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209132/page/n69/mode/2up "Chapter IV Khyber and Beyond"] page 69 ''Khyber Caravan: Through Kashmir, Waziristan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Northern India''] by Gordon Sinclair 1936. Archive.org. Also available [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1936-khyber-caravan-through-kashmir-waziristan-afghanistan-baluchistan-and-northern-india-by-sinclair-s-pdf/  PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]. If download button does not display, locate in Books/Indian Subcontinent/1936. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Sinclair Gordon Sinclair] (Wikipedia), Canadian journalist.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1939-permanent-way-through-the-khyber-by-bayley-s-pdf/ ''Permanent Way Through the Khyber''] by  Victor Bayley 1939, first published 1934. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.  [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2743 Archive.org mirror version].
:Also see [[Khyber Railway]].
 


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Latest revision as of 22:58, 30 May 2021

Khyber Pass
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 34.102179°N 71.121968°E
Altitude:
Present Day Details
Place Name: Khyber Pass
State/Province: Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)
Country: Pakistan
Transport links

Alternative spelling: Khaibar Pass, Khaiber Pass

The Khyber Pass connects the Pakistani province of NWFP to Afghanistan. It is currently part of Khyber Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan.

History

Battle of Khyber Pass 1842

Also see

Locations within the Pass

Cemeteries

  • Ali Masjid
  • Landi Kotal

Forts

External links

Historical books online

  • The Khyber by Edward A. Morphy. 1899 Full title: The Khyber: a Sketch of the Pass, its Establishment, Physical Features and Recent History …and some Hints to Travellers. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection
  • Khyber page 227 North-West Frontier Province, Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series 1908 Archive.org
  • "Chapter IV Khyber and Beyond" page 69 Khyber Caravan: Through Kashmir, Waziristan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Northern India] by Gordon Sinclair 1936. Archive.org. Also available PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If download button does not display, locate in Books/Indian Subcontinent/1936. Gordon Sinclair (Wikipedia), Canadian journalist.
  • Permanent Way Through the Khyber by Victor Bayley 1939, first published 1934. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Archive.org mirror version.
Also see Khyber Railway.