North West Frontier Province

Also seen as North-West Frontier Province, Northwest Frontier Province, N W F Province or NWFP.

Map of the province

North West Frontier Province was created out of Punjab in 1901. It was part of the Bengal Presidency and it is now a province of Pakistan. In April 2010, the name of the province was official changed to Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa by passage of an amendment to the Constitution.

History

North West Frontier Campaigns

Capital

• Peshawar

Districts

It consisted of five districts.

• Bannu District
• Dera Ismail Khan District
• Hazara District
• Kohat District
• Peshawar District

Cities/Towns

• Abbottabad
• Bannu/Edwardesabad
• Chakdara
• Charsadda
• Cherat
• Chitral
• Dera Ismail Khan aka D. I. Khan
• Hangu
• Haripur
• Karak
• Khanpur
• Kohat
• Lakki Marwat
• Mardan
• Nowshera
• Peshawar
• Risalpur
• Swabi
• Tank

Regions

• Hazara

Princely States

The following princely states were located in the region and included into it after Partition.

• Amb State
• Chitral State
• Dir State
• Phulra State (minor)
• Swat State

Forts

• Bala Hissar
• Chakdara Fort
• Kohat Fort

For images see: Forts of the Frontier

Passes

• Lowari Pass

External Links

• Online articles on the Province
• NWF Province - British Era Wikipedia
• Rootsweb - North West Frontier Map
• Sketching the Afghan Border Watercolours and sketches of the North West Frontier Province, India, 1909-1913, by an unknown artist. King’s College London Collections: The Serving Soldier.

Historical books online

• Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series. North - West Frontier Province 1908 Archive.org
• Gazetteer Of The Hazara District 1907. A volume in the series N W F Province Gazetteers. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
• A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of Punjab and North-West Frontier Province by H A Rose 1911-1919. Volumes 1 and 3 pdf downloads Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Volume 2 Archive.org.

Volume 1 (1919 reprint); Volume 2 A – K 1911 ; Volume 3 L – Z with appendices A -L 1914.

• The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province and Kashmir by Sir James Douie 1916 Archive.org. A volume in the series Provincial Geographies of India
• N W F Province Gazetteers Peshawar District Vol.a 1931. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
  • An earlier publication: Gazetteer Of The Peshawar District 1897-98. A volume in the series Punjab District Gazetteers. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
• Report Of The North West Frontier Province Subjects Committee 1931 Archive.org
• A Handbook to the North-West Frontier including Jhelum Rawalpindi and Hazara Districts by Cyril James Davey 1942. Pdf download Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
• The Great Wall of India by Ian Hay [John Hay Beith] 1933. Archive.org. The author visited a friend at Chashmai Fort. This is probably a fictional name. The friend worked for an unnamed Frontier Corps.