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'''Karachi''' was the capital of [[Sind]] under [[Bombay Presidency]] from 1840's until 1936 and as an independent province from 1936 till Partition in 1947. ==Spelling Variantsvariants ==* Modern name: Karachi<br>Variants: Kurrachee
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|transport=[[Kotri-Rohri Railway]]
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During the British period '''Karachi''' was the headquarters of [[Karachi District]] and the capital of the Sind division of [[Bombay (Presidency)|Bombay Presidency]] from 1840s until 1936. See [[Bombay Districts]]. [[Sind]] was an independent province from 1936 till Partition in 1947.
==History==
[[Image:Khiport1906.jpg|thumb|280px|right|Memorial Arch at the Port for the Prince and Princess of Wales (1906)]]
It was occupied by the British in 1839.
* Wikipedia article: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Karachi History]
==Places of Worship==
====Catholic====
[[Image:Karachi_St_Patricks_Cathedral.jpg|thumb|300px| right|St. Patrick's Cathedral]]
Was part of the Vicariate Apostolic of [[Bombay]] until 1886. From 1886 to 1947, it was part of the Archdiocese of Bombay.
* Brooks Memorial Methodist Church (1875). Founder: Rev. Frank Ambrose Goodman. Denomination: Methodist
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Cathedral_(Karachi) Holy Trinity Church] (now Cathedral). Denomination: Anglican
* St. Andrew's Church (Scotch Church) (1867-68). Denomination: Presbyterian. [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/s/019pho000000425u00017000.html Photograph Scotch Church of St Andrew's, Karachi c1900] Also [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/i/019pho000000201u00091000.html Interior of St Andrew's Church, Karachi c1870] images and background details from British Library Gallery online.* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul's_Church,_Manora St. Paul's Church], Manora. [http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=59583057&postcount=23 Photographs of Churches in Kurrachee (taken in the 1850s- 1870s)] skyscrapercity.com
===Other places===
==Cemeteries==
* [[Bene Israel Cemetery]] - [http://www.jewishtimesasia.org/main-news-topmenu-48/359-2010-08/1732-jewish-cemetery-in-karachi-documented-for-first-time Jewish Cemetery In Karachi Documented For First Time] Jewish timesasia.org [http://www.cemeteryofthelosttribe.com View the documentary film] [http://arifhasan.org/images-gallery/jewish-graveyard Photographs]
* [[Gora Kabristan, Karachi|Gora Kabristan]]
* [[Karachi War Cemetery]]
==Military==*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=StsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA349 "Special Sanitary and Topographical Report on Kurrachee"] by Surgeon-Major Dr Inglis [[64th Regiment of Foot|64th Regiment]], page 349 ''Army Medical Department: Statistical Sanitary and Medical Reports for the year 1861'' (published 1863) Google Books*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/472/mode/2up "Kurrachee"] page 473 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org*[http://www.jewishtimesasiabl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/i/largeimage56653.html Photograph: Infantry Barracks, Napier Lines, Kurrachee c 1870] with [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/i/019pho000000201u00087000.html description] British Library Online Gallery*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/b/largeimage57526.html Bird's eye view Napier Barracks Karachi c 1900] with [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/b/019pho000000425u00027000.htm description] [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/b/largeimage57527.html A second view c 1900] with [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/b/019pho000000425u00028000.htm description] British Library Online Gallery*[http://www.telstudies.org/maindiscussion/service_years/karachi_photos.shtml Snapshots of Drigh Road RAF Depot, Karachi, now PAF Base Faisal] c 1927. [[T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)]] , as Aircraftman T E Shaw, was stationed here in 1927-news1928. telstudies.org. Retrieved 21 August 2014*"Every Day A Bonus" by Ken Clarke from ''Regimental Association of The Queen's Own Buffs (PWRR): The Journal'' issues No 11-topmenu14 Autumn 2005-Spring 2007. The pages covering the voyage to India in 1933, time in India, and voyage back to England in 1938 are (11)48-49; (12)29-39; (13)15-25; (14)38.:[http://thequeensownbuffs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/35912/Journal-No-11-2010Autumn-082005.pdf Issue 11], [http://thequeensownbuffs.com/1732wp-jewishcontent/uploads/2016/12/Journal-cemeteryNo-in12-Spring-2006.pdf 12], [http://thequeensownbuffs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Journal-No-13-Autumn-2006.pdf 13], [http://thequeensownbuffs.com/wp-karachicontent/uploads/2016/12/Journal-documentedNo-for14-firstSpring-time Jewish Cemetery In Karachi Documented For First Time2007.pdf 14] thequeensownbuffs.com:Issue 13 includes his experiences with the [[50th Regiment of Foot|1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment]] Jewish timesasiain Karachi.*"Last stop Karachi 1946!" by John ‘Dusty’ Miller [https://web.archive.org /web/20140624065252/http://www.qissa-khwani.com:80/2012/09/last-stop-karachi-1946.html Part 1], [https://web.archive.org/web/20161221004433/http://www.cemeteryofthelosttribeqissa-khwani.com View /2012/09/last-stop-karachi-1946_16.html Part 2]. He was a driver in the documentary filmRAF and was in India 1945-1947, his last posting in Karachi. www.qissa-khwani.com, now archived.*[http://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-K.htm#Karachi RAF Karachi] (including Drigh Road) rafweb.org. Retrieved 1 July 2014*[http://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-M.htm#Mauripur RAF Mauripur], in the vicinity of Karachi. rafweb.org. Retrieved 1 July 2014
==Clubs and Associations==
==Buildings==
[[Image:Karachi_Frere_Hall.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Frere Hall]]
===Cinemas===
* Karachi Grammer School (1847)
* Sind Arts College (later DJ College)
* St. Joseph's Convent (1862)[http://www.angelfire.com/in/stjosephsconvent/history_of_st.htm History of SJC] (official website)
* St. Patrick's High School (1861) [http://www.stpats.edu.pk/ official website]
* Nadirshah Edulji Dinshaw (NED) College (formerly Prince of Wales Engineering College.) (1922, renamed 1924) [http://www.neduet.edu.pk/ official website]
==Newspapers==
* Sind Gazette
==Health==
===Hospitals===
[[Image:Karachi - Civil Hospital.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Karachi Civil Hospital]]
* Civil Hospital (1854). Located on Mission Road.
* Lady Dufferin Hospital (1898)
==Gardens==
[[Image:Karachi_garden_beaumont_lawns.jpg|thumb|25opx|right|Beaumont Lawns (2006)]]
* Burns Garden
* Erskine Garden
==Economy and business==
*[[Economy of Karachi]]
==Locations==
This is a list of the major areas, quarters and roads of the city.
====Lines====
* Civil Lines
* Jacob Lines
* R.A. Lines
====Quarters====
* Artillery Maidan Quarter
* Frere Quarter
* Napier Quarter
====Roads====[[Image:Karachi_britto_road_2007.jpg|300px|right|Britto Road (2007)]]* Britto Road
* Brunton Road
* Bunder Road (now M.A. Jinnah Road)
For more information, visit [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_streets_of_Karachi List of streets of Karachi]
==Transportation==
====Railways====
There were two stations, McLeod Road Station (now City Station) and Frere Street Station (now Karachi Cantt)
===Tramway===
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20130127070013/http://pakistaniat.com/2007/09/14/karachi-tramway-of-yesteryears/ The Karachi Tramway of Yesteryears] 14 September 2007 All Things Pakistan, now an archived website.
====Karachi Harbour====[[Image:Karachi_Kemari.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Taking the boat from Kemari]]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karachi_Port_Trust Karachi Port Trust] was established by an Act in 1886 (effective 1887) to manage the affairs of the port.
* Kemari (earlier an island, but joined to the mainland)
* Napier Mole
==External Links==
[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?volume=15&objectid=DS405.1.I34_V15_017.gif Karachi City] Imperial Gazetteer
==References==<references/> ==External Links====Maps=Maps===
[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/kurrachee_harbour_1882.jpg Kurrachee Harbour Map 1882] from the Historical Maps of Asia Collection, University of Texas, Austin
===Booklets=Historical books online====*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uZdeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''An Account of the Kurachee Municipality, from Its Commencement to the 1st Jan. 1860''] by A F Bellasis, late Collector and Magistrate of Kurachee. 1860 Google Books*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000036228#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=8&z=0%2C-256.4058%2C2842%2C2800.8116 ''The Sind Directory. With a map ... Also, a plan of Kurrachee ... A general description of the Punjab, etc.''] by George Bease 1862 British Library Digital Collection. Note: There do not appears to be any maps.**[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000036228#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=269&z=0%2C-256.4058%2C2842%2C2800.8116 A List of the European and Eurasian Inhabitants in Sind at 1st April 1862] page 252*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005D3D8 ''The Tourist's Guide from Delhi to Kurrachee, describing the various towns ... commerce: railways: river communications: &c: &c: with a map'']. Lahore [c 1865?]. British Library Digital Collection* [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.110482/page/n3/mode/2up ''Kurrachee: Past Present And Future''] by Alexander F Baillie 1890. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7678/page/n1/mode/2up 2nd file] with images correctly rotated. Archive.org. [http://cbiwww.sanipanhwar.com/Kurrachee%20Past%20Present%20and%20Future%20.pdf Another version] transcribed by sanipanhwar.com*[https://archive.org/details/b32843355_0001/page/n5/mode/2up ''Drainage problems of the East : being a revised and enlarged edition of "Oriental drainage", [Volume 1<nowiki>]</nowiki>''] by C C James 1917, first published 1906 Archive.org. Includes chapters relating to Drainage of the major cities in India (Bombay, Calcutta, '''Karachi''', Madras, “Benares, Lucknow, Mirzapur and Lahore”), Rangoon, Singapore, Penang and Shanghai, and of the major cities in Egypt. [https://archive.org/details/b32843355_0002/page/n5/mode/2up ''Drainage problems of the East, Volume 2-theaterPlans''] by C C James 1917 Archive.org* ''The Karachi Handbook & Directory for 1922-1023'' edited by Sir Montague de P Webb 1922. Published by ''The Daily Gazette'', Karachi. [https://archive.org/details/in.homeernet.comcastdli.net2015.548423/page/n17 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The print quality of some pages is poor.=====Booklets=====* [http://~www.cbi-theater-10.com/karachi/karachi.html ''Guide to Karachi] '' Booklet produced for US Soldiers during WWII. cbi-theater.com* [http://www.cbi-theater-10.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater-10com/depotno1/depotno1.html ''Special Service Booklet''] for US Soldiers during WWII. cbi-theater.com
====Thesis====
* Haider, Azimusshan (1971), [http://eprints.hec.gov.pk/917/ History of Karachi with special reference to educational and commercial development (1839-1900)], PhD thesis, University of Karachi, Karachi.
* Wajidi, Muhammad Abuzar (1990) [http://eprints.hec.gov.pk/915/1/649.html.htm KMC (Karachi Municipal Corporation): A study of its administrative and financial organisation] PhD thesis, University of Karachi, Karachi.
====Other====*[http://www.dawn.com/2011/04news/03617830/sugar-and-stone.html "Sugar and Stone"] by Peerzada Salmon Salman ''Dawn'' Sunday 3 April 2011. Select page 16 under Karachi. Article about historical buildings, with . Unfortunately the article now does not show the photographsoriginally available.
*[http://www.dawn.com/2011/05/23/somakes-karachi.html Somake`s Karachi] by Peerzada Salman ''Dawn'' 23 May 2011. Moses Somake, born 1875, was an architect in Karachi
====Video====
* [http://www.chaltatv.com/video/14368/Christian-Cemetery-Karachi-Pakistan-BBC-Report Christian Cemetery, Karachi] BBC Urdu report (in Urdu)
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9wfetvoanI Karachi and Bombay at the End of the Raj] as seen by a British soldier sometime between 1942 and 1947: (updated commentary from the earlier posting [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhtldMcawFA Karachi at the End of the Raj] YouTube video
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CRiJs7vXWg Churches of Karachi] Short documentary on their construction/architecture (in Urdu) on youtube
==Further Reading==
* Lari, Yasmin and Mihail Lari, "The Dual City: Karachi during the Raj" Karachi OUP. 1997. ISBN: 978-0195777352
==References==
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