User:Rzafar

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.

If you would like to contact me you can send me an email at this address: pakgenweb@gmail.com

Images

The following photographs are my copyright. They are licenced under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0. Credit would be appreciated as is an email with their usage

One rupee coin (1835)

Khyber Pass

The following photographs are my brother, Momin Zafar's copyright. They are licenced under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0. Credit is required as is an email to this address: momin.zafar@gmail.com. Subject: Image used from FIBIS.

Murree Brewery

Britto Road, Karachi

Graves

You can see images contributed to Find A Grave here: Karachi War Cemetery

Images of Karachi - Gora Kabristan here:

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• 14
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For those of Gora Kabristan in Lahore, check these link: List and this one: Photograps Find a Grave

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.

/library

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
• The Punjab under Imperialism 1885-1947 by Imran Ali (agriculture related)

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 Frontier and Resident at Lahore from 01 January 1847 to 4th March 1848(reprint)
• Political Diaries of Lt. Reynell G. Taylor, Mr. P Sandys Melvill, Pandit Kunahya Lal, P.A. Vans Agnew (reprint)
• Political Diaries of Lt. H B. Edwardes 1847-1849 (reprint)
• Journals and Diaries of the Assistants to the Agent, Governor General North-West Frontier and Resident at Lahore 1846-1848 (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/Images

• Historical images of Pakistan by F. S Aijazuddin 1992
• Lahore Recollected An Album. F. S. Aijazuddin Lahore: Sang-e-Meel, 2004
• 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