Lahore

Lahore
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:	31.545073°N 74.340835°E
Altitude:	217 m (712 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Lahore
State/Province:	Punjab
Country:	Pakistan
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Lahore was the capital of undivided Punjab until Partition in 1947, after which it became the capital of West Punjab in Pakistan.

Places of interest

Lahore Museum

• Walled City of Lahore
• Lahore Fort
• Lahore Museum

Churches

Anglican

• Lahore Cathedral (Cathedral Church of Resurrection) - consecrated in 1887
• St Andrew's (The Railway Church) - built in 1899 to serve the Railway colony, near the North Western Railway Headquarters
• St Anthony's - also near the North Western Railway Headquarters on Empress Road

Roman Catholic

• Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception - built 1861
• Sacred Heart Cathedral - consecrated 1907, the seat of the Diocese of Lahore

Education

Schools

• Convent of Jesus and Mary
• Queen Mary College

Colleges/University

Government College

• Government College (now University) (1864)
• Islamia College
• King Edward Medical College (now University)
• University of Punjab

Health

Hospitals

• Lady Aitchison Hospital
• Mayo Hospital (1871)
• Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (1921)

Cemeteries

• Gora Kabristan

Commercial

Banks

• The Australasia Bank (1942)
• Punjab National Bank (1895)

Military

The Cantonment was situated 3 miles east of the civil station of Lahore and until 1906 was known as Mian Mir (alternative spelling Mean Meer, Meean Meer)

Lahore was the head-quarters of the Punjab Light Horse and of the 1st Punjab Volunteer Rifles. "A Beleagured City",is a parody by Rudyard Kipling about the proximity of the firing range of the Punjab Volunteer Rifles to the Lawrence Hall Gardens

Transport

Railways

• Lahore Railway Station

Lahore was the headquarters of North Western Railway. There were railway workshops and a railway colony.

Statues

The following are some of the people whose statues were erected during the period. All except one has been removed from their original locations.

• Queen Victoria
• King Edward VII
• Lala Lajpat Rai
• Professor Alfred C. Woolner
• Sir Ganga Ram
• Sir John Lawrence

Maps

Lahore Map 1912 from the Historical Maps of Asia Collection, University of Texas, Austin

External links

"'A Feeling of Absence from Old England:' the Colonial Bungalow" by William J Glover. Home Cultures Volume 1 Issue 1 pages 61-82 2004(?). Contains references to Lahore from page 3 of the pdf. “By the late nineteenth century, Lahore was a desirable posting for European officers and civilians due to its large size, moderate climate, and relatively cosmopolitan range of institutions and activities.”

Historical books online

• "Lahore City", pages 37-40 and "Lahore Cantonment", page 40 from Imperial Gazetteer of India : Provincial Series Punjab Volume II The Lahore, Rawalpindi and Multan Divisions and Native States, 1908 Archive.org
• Punjab disturbances, April 1919; compiled from the Civil and military gazette 1919 Archive.org
• "Lahore Central Jail", page 95 from Professional papers on Indian engineering, Volume 5 1868 Google Books