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*Modern name: Nowshera<br>Variants: Naushera*/Nausherha*/Naushahra
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|country= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan Pakistan]
|transport= [[North Western Railway]]
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<small>''For Naushera in the Punjab, see [[Rahim Yar Khan]].''</small>
'''Nowshera''' was a town and cantonment as well as tehsil of [[Peshawar District]] (later [[Peshawar Division]]). The town was on the route of [[North-Western Railway]] and the Grand Trunk (GT) Road. The population according to the 1901 census of India was 9,518.
==Spelling Variants==
==Geography==
==Cantonment==
In 1908 the Imperial Gazetteer of India remarked of the cantonment at Nowshera that it “stretches along the right bank of the Kabul river on a sandy plain, 3 miles in diameter, and is surrounded by low hills on all sides except the north, which is open towards the river. The garrison now consists of one British infantry regiment, two native cavalry and four infantry regiments, a mountain battery, and a bearer corps, belonging to the Peshawar division of the Northern Command. The Kabul river is crossed by a permanent bridge of boats, whence roads lead to [[Mardan]] and [[Charsadda]]. The iron road and railway bridge across the river was opened on December 1, 1903. The village of Naushahra Khurd, west of the cantonment, and the large village of Naushahra Kalān, on the north bank of the Kabul, are both outside cantonment limits. The head-quarters of the Naushahra tahsīl, with the police station, are in the former, 3 miles from the cantonment. The town contains a Government dispensary and a vernacular middle school, maintained by the District board."
==Cemeteries and other records==
*881 Nowshera, Pakistan: Christ Church: burials, 1897-1922
*882 Nowshera, Pakistan: burials, 1922-1946
*883 Nowshera Cemetery, Pakistan: Cemetery Register, 1858-1927
Also see "Historical books online", below.
==External lnks==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowshera Nowshera] Wikipedia
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043173-RE_171868.html Nowshera, NWFP, Chital Relief Memorial 1895, sent c 1930] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043173-VE_216160.html message] “Every year a column goes up to Chitral. It takes six weeks from start to finish, the distance there & back is 365 miles, a stiff march”.
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043172-RE_171869.html Nowshera, The Church] sent c 1931 with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043172-VE_216159.html message]
*From the collection of James Wilson, Royal Artillery 1940s WW2-1947 500px.com.
**[https://500px.com/photo/23071773/royal-artillery-9th-field-regiment-barracks-nowshera-india-1940s-by-scott-mcculloch Photograph: Royal Artillery, 9th Field Regiment Barracks, Nowshera 1940s WW2]
**[https://500px.com/photo/23071731/royal-artillery-camp-nowshera-india-ww2-by-scott-mcculloch Photograph: Royal Artillery Camp, 9th Field Regiment. Nowshera]
**[https://500px.com/photo/23071781/regimental-canteen-9th-field-regiment-royal-artillery-by-scott-mcculloch Photograph: Regimental Canteen, 9th Field Regiment, likely Nowshera]
**[https://500px.com/photo/23071739/regal-cinema-nowshera-nw-frontier-province-late-1940s-by-scott-mcculloch Photograph: Regal Cinema, Nowshera c 1946]
**[https://500px.com/photo/23071729/cinema-in-nw-frontier-province-india-late-1940s-by-scott-mcculloch Photograph: Cinema, likely Nowshera]
**[https://500px.com/photo/23071733/untitled-by-scott-mcculloch Photograph: Nowshera Railway Station, India. 1946]
===Historical books online===
*[http://archive.org/stream/northwestfrontie00calcuoft#page/162/mode/2up "Naushahra Town"] page 163 ''Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series North-West Frontier Province'' 1908 Archive.org
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_423.gif "Naushahra Town"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 18, page 417.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=179 "Nowshera"] page 157 ''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) Hathi Trust Digital Library
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