Quetta

Quetta
Presidency:
Coordinates:	30.200602°N 67.034018°E
Altitude:	1,900 m (6,230 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Quetta
State/Province:	Balochistan
Country:	Pakistan
Transport links
North Western Railway

Quetta is the largest city and provincial capital of Balochistan. During the British period it was known as Shawl and was the headquarters of the Quetta-Pishin District of Baluchistan.

Spelling variants

Quetta, Kwettah

Military history

England's March to Quetta 1842
Quetta earthquake 1935

Churches and Missions

Churches

• Mission Church (1903)

• 
  Wesleyan Church, Quetta
• 
  Roman Catholic Church, Quetta
• 
  St Lukes Church, Quetta
• 
  St Mary's Church, Quetta

Missions

• Church Missionary Society
• Church of England Zanana Missionary Society (zanana=women)

Cemeteries

A BACSA (British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia) cemetery publication is

• Quetta: Monuments and Inscriptions by Susan Farrington, 1992 Covers the cemeteries, town's history, the staff college, railways, churches and the 1935 earthquake.

BACSA are in the process of putting the indexes to its cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. 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 has the following items: shelfmark Mss Eur F370: Cemetery Files
no.740: Quetta 1, Pakistan: Baleli Road: 1884-,
no.741: Quetta 2, Pakistan: Shaldara: closed; Lytton Road: closed; Earthquake

Further Reading

A Nursing Sister in Baluchistan by J M Morris (1932) No Preview Google Books. Experiences at a mission hospital in Quetta from 1921. Available at the British Library.

External Link

• Quetta Wikipedia
• History of Quetta Wikipedia
• Bruce Street (now Jinnah Road) before 1935 earthquake.(youtube video)
• Post office before and after earthquake (1935) (youtube video)
• Pen and ink drawing of the military cantonment at Quetta by George Boyd (1800-1850), dated between 1821 and 1844 with a description British Library Images online
• Quetta's eloquent graveyard A set of photographs by saaakif taken 2008. flickr.com
  • Christian cemetery Quetta: gravestone of Florence Harford died 12 September 1900 of enteric fever, wife of Lt-Col HC Harford, 1st Wilts Regt flickr.com
  • Cemetery inscription Quetta:Frances White: In Loving Memory of Frances The Dearly Beloved Wife of C. Sergeant Arthur E. White 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers Who Departed this Life at Quetta 21st September 1894 Aged 22 Years 8 Months flickr.com

Historical books on-line

A gazetteer of the countries adjacent to India on the northwest Volume 2 by Edward Thornton 1844 Shawl - scroll to page 187 Google Books