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*[https://gallery.fibis.org/index.php?/tags/524-dera_ismail_khan Photographs of Dera Ismail Khan in Fibis Gallery] | *[https://gallery.fibis.org/index.php?/tags/524-dera_ismail_khan Photographs of Dera Ismail Khan in Fibis Gallery] | ||
==External | ==External links== | ||
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20161013212007/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/21336744 Photograph: Dera, Church in Cantt] by Mudasir Hassan uploaded April 18, 2009 panoramio.com, now archived. | *[https://web.archive.org/web/20161013212007/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/21336744 Photograph: Dera, Church in Cantt] by Mudasir Hassan uploaded April 18, 2009 panoramio.com, now archived. Appears to be St. Thomas's Church. | ||
*[http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19400428-1.2.97.aspx "Opening Up of Baluchistan"] "Motor Road through the Mountains to link Dera Ismail Khan with [[Fort Sandeman]]. Bridle paths running through the Takht-i-Sulaiman mountains are being transformed into a motor highway". ''The Straits Times'', 28 April 1940, Page 12. Newspapers-Singapore Government. | *[http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19400428-1.2.97.aspx "Opening Up of Baluchistan"] "Motor Road through the Mountains to link Dera Ismail Khan with [[Fort Sandeman]]. Bridle paths running through the Takht-i-Sulaiman mountains are being transformed into a motor highway". ''The Straits Times'', 28 April 1940, Page 12. Newspapers-Singapore Government. (You need to agree to Terms and Conditions of Use) | ||
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151017004509/http://www.pkhope.com/d-i-khan-how-cities-change/ "D. I. Khan: How cities change"] by Prof. Dr. Mansoor Akbar Kundi June 28th, 2009 ''The Pakistani Spectator''. now archived. | *[https://web.archive.org/web/20151017004509/http://www.pkhope.com/d-i-khan-how-cities-change/ "D. I. Khan: How cities change"] by Prof. Dr. Mansoor Akbar Kundi June 28th, 2009 ''The Pakistani Spectator''. now archived. | ||
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/1514707/Church-is-melancholy-reminder-of-regions-rebellions.html Church is melancholy reminder of region's rebellions] | *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160707053535/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/1514707/Church-is-melancholy-reminder-of-regions-rebellions.html Church is melancholy reminder of region's rebellions]. 03 Apr 2006 article detailing condition of St Thomas's Church and Memorial Inscriptions in Dera Ismail Khan. telegraph.co.uk, archived. | ||
===Historical books online=== | ===Historical books online=== | ||
*[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/44/3/204.full.pdf "Waziristan District"] by Lieutenant-Colonel B. B. Burke ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1925;44:3 pages 204-207. "Every officer must carry a loaded revolver when travelling on account of the possibility of fanatical attacks". | *[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/44/3/204.full.pdf "Waziristan District"] by Lieutenant-Colonel B. B. Burke ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1925; 44:3 pages 204-207. "Every officer must carry a loaded revolver when travelling on account of the possibility of fanatical attacks". | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
Revision as of 22:38, 4 December 2020
| Dera Ismail Khan | |
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| Presidency: Bengal | |
| Coordinates: | 31.816667°N 70.916667°E |
| Altitude: | 165 m (541 ft) |
| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Dera Ismail Khan |
| State/Province: | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, old NWFP |
| Country: | Pakistan |
| Transport links | |
Dera Ismail Khan was the capital of Dera Ismail Khan District in the North West Frontier Province during the British period. In the 1920s it was always referred to as D.I.K. [1]
Churches
Cemeteries
Comment on FIBIS’s Facebook page 11 August 2013 by Shahjahan Bhatti "There is graveyard on River Indus in Dera Ismail Khan. All graves are of English people who died here. .. I have witnessed around hundred cemented graves with a cemented boundry wall. The cemetery is situated in cantonement area where these days civilians are not allowed...". Comment by Omer Khan "I thought that there was an old Christian graveyard near the old Anglican Church..."
- BACSA cemetery file - Dera Ismail Khan Cemetery , Pakistan (closed 1871). British Library ref Mss Eur F370/694
- Just over a dozen graves in both old and new cemeteries have been transcribed in A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest Part 1 by Miles Irving (1910), page 174. Hathi Trust Digital Library
Gallery
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A class of students of Dera Ismail Khan -
Probably the farewell of Abdullah Khan 1914 -
Tomb- Sir Henry Marion Durand, in the compound of St. Thomas's Church -
Victoria Bharatari High School Dera Ismail Khan -
Commemorative Plaque in Vedic Bharatari (V.B) College Dera Ismail Khan -
Plaque in the memory of Rai Tehl Ram Bagai at Vedic Bharatari (V.B) College Dera Ismail Khan
Other FIBIS Resources
External links
- Photograph: Dera, Church in Cantt by Mudasir Hassan uploaded April 18, 2009 panoramio.com, now archived. Appears to be St. Thomas's Church.
- "Opening Up of Baluchistan" "Motor Road through the Mountains to link Dera Ismail Khan with Fort Sandeman. Bridle paths running through the Takht-i-Sulaiman mountains are being transformed into a motor highway". The Straits Times, 28 April 1940, Page 12. Newspapers-Singapore Government. (You need to agree to Terms and Conditions of Use)
- "D. I. Khan: How cities change" by Prof. Dr. Mansoor Akbar Kundi June 28th, 2009 The Pakistani Spectator. now archived.
- Church is melancholy reminder of region's rebellions. 03 Apr 2006 article detailing condition of St Thomas's Church and Memorial Inscriptions in Dera Ismail Khan. telegraph.co.uk, archived.
Historical books online
- "Waziristan District" by Lieutenant-Colonel B. B. Burke Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps 1925; 44:3 pages 204-207. "Every officer must carry a loaded revolver when travelling on account of the possibility of fanatical attacks".
References
- ↑ "Notes on a Tour Through Waziristan" by Major A. D. Stirling Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps 1927;49:2 pages 143-151.