Peshawar
| Peshawar | |
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| Presidency: Bengal | |
| Coordinates: | 34.015112°N 71.582634°E |
| Altitude: | 510 m (1,673 ft) |
| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Peshawar |
| State/Province: | Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa |
| Country: | Pakistan |
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Peshawar was the capital of North West Frontier Province and Peshawar District from 1903 until 1947. It was part of Punjab before then.
Spelling variants
Peshawar, Peshawur
Education
- Edwardes College
- Islamia College (now University) (1913)
Churches
- 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
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
Health
Hospitals
- Lady Reading Hospital(1924)
Forts
External Links
- Peshawar Wikipedia
- Diocese of Peshawar, Church of Pakistan
- Peshawar – Scenes And Pictures Of Pakistan 2009 Includes photographs of St John’s Cathedral and the cemetery (scroll down)
- Photograph of Peshawar 1878 flickr.com. A view across the cantonment towards St John's Church and the distant mountains of the Khyber Pass, taken in 1878 by John Burke.
- Postcard of Soldiers’ Married Quarters Peshawar Flickr.com
- Khyber [Masonic] Lodge, Peshawar
- Peshawar Remembered by Walter Reeve (born 1934) whose father was in the Indian Army. The recollections of an English schoolboy growing up in Peshawar around the time of partition
- The kidnapping of Mollie Ellis from Kohat cantonment by Afridi tribesmen from the Khyber Pass region 14 April 1923 and the rescue expedition which included Mrs Lilian Starr matron at the Peshawar Mission Hospital: Article by Michael E Lambert, from his website html version, original pdf; Article from Lookand learn.com, Photographs from the Illustrated London News (26 May 1923 pages 894-895 ) Flickr.com. An account of her rescue mission Tales of Tirah and Lesser Tibet by Lilian A Starr, published 1924 is available at the British Library
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