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Historical books online
==Spelling variants==
Peshawer, Peshawur, Paishawar, Peyshawurr
 
==FIBIS Resources==
*[http://www.gallery.fibis.org/index.php?/tags/37-peshawar Images of Peshawar in FIBIS Gallery]
*[http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Category:Peshawar_images Images of Peshawar in Fibiwiki]
==Education==
==Cemeteries==
Article [https://web.archive.org/web/20120701122516/http://pakhtun.com/index.php/about-pashtuns/history-of-pashtuns/gora-qabristan-a-vanashing-landmark "Peshawar’s Gora Qabristan : A Vanishing Landmark"] by Dr. Ali Jan written c 2010 www.pakhtun.com. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131121081612/http://www.geocities.ws/scn_pk/peshawar_cemetery_new.html Peshawar's Historic Cemetery] by Dr Ali Jan. Contains some of the same text, but also includes information about the 1918 flu pandemic. (archive.org links)
[[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|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
See [http://indian-cemeterieswww.bacsa.org.uk/bacsa/html/bacsa_books.html ?page_id=875 BACSA Books].
[[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] are in the process of putting the have put some indexes to its cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browseat [http://bacsa.frontis.co/bin/index.php BACSA Search]. 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 [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|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. See [http: burials, 1870-1879 *887 Peshawar //www.bacsa.org.uk/?page_id=697 BACSA Cemetery files] and Cherat, Pakistan: burials at Peshawar, 1879-1890; burials at Cherat, 1879-1887 *888 Peshawar, select Pakistan: burials, 1890-1933.
For some memorial inscriptions from Peshawar , see [http://www.indian-cemeteries.org Indian Cemeteries], including
*[http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/viewimage.asp?mode=mon&ID=301 Monument to those who died 67th Battery Royal Field Artillery 1904-1906] at Tehkal Cemetery, Peshawar
*[http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/viewimage.asp?mode=mon&ID=314 Monument to those who died No 6 Mountain Battery Royal Garrison Artillery 1914-1921] at Tehkal Cemetery, Peshawar
 
Also see "Historical books online", below.
==Hospitals==
[[Image:Lady_Reading_Hospital_Peshawar.jpg|thumb|300px|Lady Reading Hospital]]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Reading_Hospital Lady Reading Hospital] (1924)
 
==Medical terminology==
"Peshawur fever" was malaria.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/memoirswithfulla00rossuoft#page/14/mode/2up Page 14] ''Memoirs, with a Full Account of the Great Malaria Problem and its Solution'' by Ronald Ross 1923 Archive.org</ref>
==Forts==
==The hill cantonment at Cherat==
[[Cherat ]] is a cantonment located 34 miles south east from the city of Peshawar at an elevation of 4,500 feet on the west of the Khattak range.Cherat is thought to be the same as Cherat, Murree Hills. For details of British Army regimental rock carvings at Cherat, see the page [[Murree]]====External links====*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherat Cherat] Wikipedia*[http://archive.org/stream/highlandsindia01newagoog#page/n88/mode/2up “Cherat”], page 40 ''The Highlands of India Volume 1'' by David John Falconer Newall 1882 Archive.org
==External Links ==
*[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Peshawar Peshawar] Love to Know 1911<br>
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V20_130.gif Peshawar City] Imperial Gazetteer of India<br>
*[http://www.khyberpakhtunkhwa.gov.pk/aboutus/Town-Places.php Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Town & Places] contains information about Peshawar (scroll down)
*[http://www.peshawardiocese.org/default.asp Diocese of Peshawar, Church of Pakistan]
*[http://www.thefridaytimes.com/beta3/tft/article.php?issue=20121026&page=28 "A possible Peshawar"] by Albert J Godlin October 26, 2012 ''The Friday Times''. Contains details of the British clubs, including the largest, the Peshawar Club, cinemas and churches. *[http://www.khyberlodge.co.uk/about-khyber-mainmenu-26.html Khyber [Masonic<nowiki>]</nowiki> Lodge, Peshawar]**[http://www.khyberlodge.co.uk/about-khyber-mainmenu-26/peshawar-remembered-mainmenu-43.html Peshawar Remembered] by Walter Reeve (born 1934) whose father was in the Indian Army, and later the Pakistan Army. [http://www.pakhtun.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=36%3Ahistory&id=88%3Apeshawar-remembered-walter-reeve&Itemid=90 Another version] www.pakhtun.com, and [http://web.archive.org/web/20090829075530/http://geocities.com/scn_pk/peshawar_remembered.html another version] (archived). The recollections of an English schoolboy growing up in Peshawar around the time of partition. See [[Murree]] for the author's memories of Murree.
*[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/pakistan/peshawar-ab.htm PAF <nowiki>[</nowiki>previously RAF<nowiki>]</nowiki> Peshawar] globalsecurity.org
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131121052603/http://www.geocities.ws/scn_pk/peshawar_vale_hunt.html Peshawar Vale Hunt] by Dr Ali Jan (archive.org link)*[http://web.archive.org/web/20081002070800/http://www.facebookgeocities.com/QissaKhwani?fref=ts#!scn_pk/gertrude.html Peshawar: Excerpts from Gertrude Bell's Diary (dated 22/01/1903 to 27/01/1903)] Sarhad Conservation Network, now archived.*[http://photowww.php?fbid=266192456846974&set=arafweb.205174672948753org/Stations/Stations-P.54095htm#Peshawar RAF Peshawar] rafweb.173386152794272&type=org (retrieved 1&theater July 2014) '''Missionaries'''*[http://anglicanhistory.org/india/tphughes/clark2002.pdf "Thomas Patrick Hughes, Missionary to British India: The piano and records shop of "A Godin & CoClass Ceiling" ] by Elizabeth Hughes Clark 2002 anglicanhistory.org. Hughes was a missionary in Peshawar1865-1884 with the Church Missionary Society (CMS). He was the author of ''Khalid-i-Afghani'', Being a Selection of Pushto Prose and Poetry for the Use of Students, 1873, which became the text book for the Pakhto Examination and ''Notes on Muhammadanism'' 1875 [https://archive.org/details/notesonmuhammada00hughrich 2nd edition , established 1924revised and enlarged 1877] Qissa Khwani on FacebookArchive.org. He is also mentioned in the account by the Rev. Worthington Jukes, refer below.  
====Images====
*[http://thevelvetrocket.com/2009/11/25/visiting-peshawar-scenes-and-pictures-of-pakistan Visiting Peshawar – Scenes And Pictures Of Pakistan] 2009 - Includes photos of St John’s Cathedral and the cemetery
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Re7ixChJUvUC&pg=PA53 Plan of the Peshawar Cantonment 1870] page 53 ''The Bungalow in Twentieth-Century India'' by Madhavi Desai, Miki Desai, Jon Lang Google Books
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3912689013/ Photograph of Peshawar 1878] A view across the cantonment towards St John's Church and the distant mountains of the Khyber Pass, taken in 1878 by John Burke. (Flickr)
*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=2001-02-335-30 Photograph: The Peshawar Vale Hunt, 1896] National Army Museum
*[http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/pakistan/barracks-peshawar.html Postcard: British Infantry Barracks Peshawar c 1910] imagesofasia.com
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-peshawar-nwfp-soldiers-bungalows-old-postcard-british-indian-colour-for-sale-124467 Postcard: Soldiers' Bungalow <nowiki>[</nowiki>Barracks<nowiki>]</nowiki> Peshawar] www.stamps-auction.com
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3901783868/in/photostream Postcard: Soldiers’ Married Quarters Peshawar] flickr.com
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-old-colour-postcard-the-mall-showing-station-hospital-peshawar-n-w-f-p--for-sale-132083 Postcard: The Mall showing Station Hospital Peshawar] www.stamps-auction.com
*From a collection of postcards at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, sent by F.G. Prew, a soldier, probably in the [[56th Regiment of Foot| 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment]] to Adolf Feller of Switzerland
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043188-RE_171853.html Peshawar, NWFP, General view of Robert Barracks, post stamped 19.2 1928] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043188-VE_216175.html message]
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043177-RE_171864.html Peshawar Cantt, Railway Station post stamped 24.9.1930] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043177-VE_216164.html message]
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043193-RE_171848.html Peshawar, Double Deckers, The Soldiers Bungalows post stamped 1.2.1931] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043193-VE_216180.html message]
*1930 riots in Peshawar**Photographs from the [[National Army Museum]]:***[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?q=searchType%3Dsimple%26acc%3D1977-02-39&pos=0&total=4&page=1&acc=1977-02-39-2 Riots in Peshawar, 1930] A despatch rider was killed and set on fire, his body igniting the armoured car seen burning in this photograph.***[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?q=searchType%3Dsimple%26acc%3D1977-02-39&pos=3&total=4&acc=1977-02-39-1 Troops and armoured car during 1930 riots]***[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?q=searchType%3Dsimple%26acc%3D1977-02-39&pos=1&total=4&acc=1977-02-39-3 Troops patrol during 1930 riots]**Images of articles from ''The Times'' 24-28 April 1930 [http://www.militarian.com/attachments/24th-april-jpg.3368/ 1], [http://www.militarian.com/attachments/25th-april-1-jpg.3369/ 2], [http://www.militarian.com/attachments/25th-april-2-jpg.3370/ 3], [http://www.militarian.com/attachments/26th-april-jpg.3371/ 4], [httpshttp://www.facebookmilitarian.com/attachments/28th-april-jpg.3372/ 5] militarian.com(retrieved 1 July 2014)<ref>Military History Forum thread [http:/QissaKhwani/photos_stream#!www.militarian.com/photothreads/peshawar-1930.php5327/ Peshawar 1930]</ref>*YouTube videos from the National Army Museum**[http://www.youtube.com/watch?fbidv=vw_tRqklKpw&list=253296008136619PL2FDA0D1DB6744C8A&setindex=pb8 Peshawar Vale Hunt Point to Point, c 1939] **[http://www.173386152794272youtube.-2207520000.1361624347com/watch?v=p3D4vLkAz8k&typelist=3PL2FDA0D1DB6744C8A&theater Photograph: Landsdowne Theatreindex=9 Farewell to the horse parade, Peshawar in its heyday (1933), 1940] Qissa Khwani on Facebook
====Historical books online====
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/35247 ''Gazetteer Of The Peshawar District 1897-98'']. A volume in the series ''Punjab District Gazetteers''. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/280933 ''N W F Province Gazetteers Peshawar District Vol.a 1931'']. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xagyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA428 Peshawur in 1854] page 428 ‪''Wall-Street to Cashmere‬: ‪A Journal of Five Years in Asia, Africa and Europe''‬ by John B Ireland 1859 Google Books. ([https://archive.org/stream/wallstreettocash1859irel#page/436/mode/2up page 436] (missing from the previous file)). The author was an American lawyer born in 1823.
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/390/mode/2up Peshawur] page 391 ''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
*''Memorials of the life and letters of Major-General Sir Herbert B. Edwardes'' by his Wife 1886 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/memorialsoflife01edwa Volume I] [https://archive.org/details/memorialsoflife02edwa Volume II]. Edwardes was Commissioner of Peshawar during the [[Indian Mutiny]].
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/punjabsindhmissi00clar#page/160/mode/2up "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
*[http://anglicanhistory.org/india/jukes1925/ ''Reminiscences of Missionary Work In Amritsar 1872-1873 and on the Afghan Frontier In Peshawar 1873-1890''] by the Rev. Worthington Jukes 1925. anglicanhistory.org.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=171 "Peshawar District"], page 149 ''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
*[http://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/n49/mode/2up Peshawar Riot 23 April 1930] page 16 ''India in 1930-31'' archive.org
*[https://web.archive.org/save/_embed/http://lib.uofk.edu/multisites/UofK_lib/images/stories/libpdf/sud.lib.imperial%20policing.pdf ''Imperial Policing''] by Major-General Sir Charles W Gwynn 1939 Archive.org (pdf). Also available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/275121 pdf download], Digital Library of India. Includes Chapter 10, "Peshawar District 1930", page 253.
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/527935 ''Seven Cantonments''] by Major SEG Ponder c 1938. The author was an Officer in the Royal Artillery, based in the North-West Frontier region, in the c1930s including Peshawar. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
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