Peshawar

Peshawar
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:	34.015112°N 71.582634°E
Altitude:	510 m (1,673 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Peshawar
State/Province:	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, old NWFP
Country:	Pakistan
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During the British period Peshawar was the capital of North West Frontier Province and Peshawar District from 1901 until 1947. It was part of Punjab before then.

Spelling variants

Peshawer, Peshawur, Paishawar, Peyshawurr

Education

• Edwardes College
• Islamia College (now University) (1913)

Churches

St John's Church

• St. John's Church (now Cathedral) (Garrison Church)

Cemeteries

BACSA (British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia) cemetery publications are

• Peshawar Cemetery, Pakistan by Susan Farrington, 1988 (2nd reprint 2001). c900 MIs dating from 1849. 195pp, profusely illustrated and plans
• Peshawar Monumental Inscriptions II by Susan Farrington, 1991. More inscriptions from churches and other cemeteries. 168pp, profusely illustrated and plan

See BACSA Books.

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 Mss F370 has items which may also be contained in the above books

• 884 Peshawar, Pakistan: burials 1851-1864; register of graves, 1887-1888
• 885 Peshawar, Pakistan: burials, 1864-1870
• 886 Peshawar, Pakistan: burials, 1870-1879
• 887 Peshawar and Cherat, Pakistan: burials at Peshawar, 1879-1890; burials at Cherat, 1879-1887
• 888 Peshawar, Pakistan: burials, 1890-1933

For some memorial inscriptions from Peshawar , see Indian Cemeteries, including

• Monument to those who died 67th Battery Royal Field Artillery 1904-1906 at Tehkal Cemetery, Peshawar
• Monument to those who died No 6 Mountain Battery Royal Garrison Artillery 1914-1921 at Tehkal Cemetery, Peshawar

Hospitals

Lady Reading Hospital

• Lady Reading Hospital(1924)

Forts

Balahisar

• Balahisar

External Links

• Peshawar Love to Know 1911
  
• Peshawar City Imperial Gazetteer of India
  
• Diocese of Peshawar, Church of Pakistan
• Khyber [Masonic] Lodge, Peshawar
  • Peshawar Remembered by Walter Reeve (born 1934) whose father was in the Indian Army, and later the Pakistan Army. The recollections of an English schoolboy growing up in Peshawar around the time of partition. See Murree for the author's memories of Murree.
• PAF [previously RAF] Peshawar globalsecurity.org
• The piano and records shop of "A Godin & Co" in Peshawar, established 1924 Qissa Khwani on Facebook

Images

• Visiting Peshawar – Scenes And Pictures Of Pakistan 2009 - Includes photos of St John’s Cathedral and the cemetery
• Photograph of Peshawar 1878 A view across the cantonment towards St John's Church and the distant mountains of the Khyber Pass, taken in 1878 by John Burke. (Flickr)
• Soldiers’ Married Quarters Peshawar Postcard (Flickr)
• Photographs from National Army Museum:
  • Riots in Peshawar, 1930 A despatch rider was killed and set on fire, his body igniting the armoured car seen burning in this photograph.
  • Troops and armoured car during 1930 riots
  • Troops patrol during 1930 riots
• Photograph: Landsdowne Theatre, Peshawar in its heyday (1933) Qissa Khwani on Facebook

Historical books online

• "Peshawur", page 160 The Punjab and Sindh missions of the Church Missionary Society Giving an account of their foundation and progress for thirty-three years, from 1852 to 1884. Second edition, considerably enlarged, of a book entitled "Thirty years of missionary work of the C.M.S. in the Punjab and Sindh" by Robert Clark 1885 Archive.org
• Peshawar Riot 23 April 1930 page 16 India in 1930-31 archive.org