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'''Edwardesabad,''' also called '''Bannu''', was the headquarters of [[Bannu District]] in the [[Derajat Division]] of [[North West Frontier Province]]in the British period. The present town It was founded by Sir [[Herbert Benjamin Edwardes ]] in 1848. The town was used as a base for various military campaigns and punitive expeditionsinto the nearby tribal zones. The cantonment was centred around the fort. == Spelling Variants ==Modern spelling: Bannu<br>Variants: Edwardesabad ==FIBIS Resources== * [https://wiki.fibis.org/w/Category:Bannu_Cemetery_images Bannu Cemetery images]
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|altitude=371 metres (1217ft)
|presentname= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bannu Bannu]
|stateprovince= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_West_Frontier_Province North West Frontier Province] (NWFP)now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
|country= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan Pakistan]
}}
{{Places of Interest|title=Bannu |name=Bannu |link=http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=211401480495186034184.0004bb893cc9656c1fdd3&ie=UTF8&ll=32.994555,70.606041&spn=0.054711,0.075274&t=m&z=14&vpsrc=6}}
==Churches and Missions==
* Church Missionary Society. * St George's Church
==Forts==
== External Links ==
* [http://endsal.wikipediauchicago.orgedu/reference/wikigazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V06_408.gif Bannu Bannu on Wikipedia Town]Imperial Gazetteer of India ====Historical books online==== * [httphttps://archive.org/details/bannuorourafghan00thoruoft ''Bannu : or, Our Afghan Frontier''] by S S Thorburn, India Civil Service, Settlement Officer of the Bannu District, 1876 Archive.org. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/bannuorourafghan00thoruoft#page/n7/mode/2up Map of the Bannu District] and [https://dsalarchive.uchicagoorg/stream/bannuorourafghan00thoruoft#page/230/mode/2up Pashto Proverbs translated into English] page 231*[https://archive.eduorg/details/gaz-bannu-district-1883/page/referencen5/gazetteermode/pager2up ''Gazetteer of the Bannu District'' 1883]. Punjab Government. Archive.org.html?objectid=DS405Also available [https://dspace.1gipe.I34_V06_408ac.gif Imperial Gazetteer in/xmlui/handle/10973/36636 Pdf download] Digital Repository of GIPE-Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune India].
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/pennellafghanfr00penngoog#page/n12/mode/1up ''Pennell of the Afghan frontier; the life of Theodore Leighton Pennell, M.D., B. SC., F.R.C.S. Kaisar-i-Hind medal for public service in India''] by Alice Maud Pennell 1914. Dr Pennell of the Bannu Medical Mission died at the age of 44.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=194 "Bannu District"] page 172 ''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) HathiTrust Digital Library
*[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/49/2/143.full.pdf "Notes on a Tour Through Waziristan"] by Major A. D. Stirling ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1927;49:2 pages 143-151.
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