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==Spelling variants==
Peshawer, Peshawur, Paishawar, Peyshawurr
==FIBIS Resources==
*[http://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==
*''Peshawar Monumental Inscriptions II'' by Susan Farrington, 1991. More inscriptions from churches and other cemeteries. 168pp, profusely illustrated and plan
See [httphttps://www.bacsa.org.uk/?page_id=875 product-category/cemetery-record-books/ BACSA BooksCemetery record books].
[[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] have put some indexes to its cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse at [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. See [http://www.bacsa.org.uk/?page_id=697 BACSA Cemetery files] and select Pakistan.
For some memorial inscriptions from Peshawar , see [httphttps://wwwweb.indian-cemeteriesarchive.org Indian Cemeteries], including*[/web/20160910044613/http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/viewimagemonument_list.asp?modetown=monPeshawar&IDcem=301 Monument to those who died 67th Battery Royal Field Artillery 1904-1906] Tehkal%20Cemetery Monuments at Tehkal Cemetery, Peshawar ], including *[https://web.archive.org/web/20071116210647/http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/viewimagesearchresults.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.
==External Links ==
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V20_130.gif Peshawar City] Imperial Gazetteer of India<br>
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160517054056/http://www.khyberpakhtunkhwa.gov.pk/aboutus/Town-Places.php Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Town & Places] contains information about Peshawar (scroll down). Archived page at May 2016.*[httphttps://www.peshawardiocese.org/default.asp Diocese of Peshawar, Church of Pakistan]*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160201022317/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'', now an archived webpage. Contains details of the British clubs, including the largest, the Peshawar Club, cinemas and churches. *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160324010242/http://www.khyberlodge.co.uk/about-khyber-mainmenu-26.html Khyber [Masonic<nowiki>]</nowiki> Lodge, Peshawar], now an archived webpage**[http://wwwweb.khyberlodgearchive.coorg/web/20090829075530/http://geocities.ukcom/about-khyber-mainmenu-26scn_pk/peshawar-remembered-mainmenu-43peshawar_remembered.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/2013112105260320171116081644/http://www.geocities.ws:80/scn_pk/peshawar_vale_hunt.html Peshawar Vale Hunt] by Dr Ali Jan (archive, now archived.org link)
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20081002070800/http://www.geocities.com/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://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-P.htm#Peshawar RAF Peshawar] rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014)
'''Missionaries'''
*[http://anglicanhistory.org/india/tphughes/clark2002.pdf "Thomas Patrick Hughes, Missionary to British India: The Class Ceiling"] by Elizabeth Hughes Clark 2002 anglicanhistory.org. Hughes was a missionary in Peshawar 1865-1884 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 , revised and enlarged 1877] Archive.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)
*Photographs: The Peshawar Vale Hunt, 1896: [httphttps://wwwcollection.nam.imagesofasiaac.comuk/html/pakistan/barracksdetail.php?acc=2001-02-335-peshawar.html Postcard: British Infantry Barracks Peshawar c 191030 A] imagesofasia.com*and [httphttps://wwwcollection.nam.stamps-auctionac.comuk/pakistandetail.php?acc=2001-peshawar02-nwfp335-soldiers-bungalows-old-postcard-british-indian-colour-for-sale-124467 Postcard: Soldiers' Bungalow <nowiki>[</nowiki>Barracks<nowiki>32 B]</nowiki> Peshawar] www.stamps-auction.comNational Army Museum
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3901783868/in/photostream Postcard: Soldiers’ Married Quarters Peshawar] flickr.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]
*1930 riots in Peshawar
**Photographs from the [[National Army Museum]]:
***[httphttps://wwwcollection.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.***[httphttps://wwwcollection.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?q=searchType%3Dsimple%26acc%3D1977-02-39&pos=3&total=4&acc=1977-02-39-1 Riots in Peshawar, 1930] showing Troops and armoured car during 1930 riots].***[httphttps://wwwcollection.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 Riot control duties in Peshawar, 1930 riots]showing Troops patrolling.
**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], [http://www.militarian.com/attachments/28th-april-jpg.3372/ 5] militarian.com (retrieved 1 July 2014)<ref>Military History Forum thread [http://www.militarian.com/threads/peshawar-1930.5327/ Peshawar 1930]</ref>
*YouTube videos from the National Army Museum
====Historical books online====
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.278643/2015.278643.Central-Asia#page/n549/mode/2up "Peshawar"] page 548 ''Central Asia Part I: A contribution towards the better knowledge of the topography, ethnology, resources, & history of the North-West Frontier of British India complied (for political and military reference). Volume II'', by C M Macgregor 1873. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/gazetteer-peshawar-1883/page/n7/mode/2up ''Gazetteer of the Peshawar District 1883-4''] A volume in the series of Punjab District Gazetteers. Archive.org.
:''Gazetteer of the Peshawar District 1897-98''. A volume in the series of Punjab District Gazetteers. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35247 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
* ''N W F Province Gazetteers Peshawar District Vol.a 1931''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280933 Archive.org version], mirror from 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/details/dli.pahar.0514/mode/2up ''Selections from the Public Correspondence of the Punjab Government, Volume V, No 2: Papers regarding the Insalubrity of the Peshawur Valley''] 1859. Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset
*[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
*[https://archive.org/details/sporttravelinind00bago/page/4/mode/2up Peshawar Vale Hounds] c 1870s page 4, ''Sport and travel in India and Central America'' by A. G. Bagot late 60th Rifles. 1897 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
*[https://archive.org/details/scalpelswordstre0000unse/page/130/mode/2up Peshawar] page 130 ''Scalpel, sword and stretcher : forty years of work and play'' by Colonel Robert J Blackham [1931] Archive.org Books to Borrow. The author was in India c 1897-1903, and 1908-1915. Page 135-136 mentions the Peshawar Vale Hunt.*[http://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/n49/mode/2up Peshawar Riot 23 April 1930] page 16 ''India in 1930-31'' Archive.org*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.275121/2015.275121.Imperial-Policing#page/n263/mode/2up "Peshawar District 1930"], Chapter 10, page 253 ''Imperial Policing'' by Major-General Sir Charles W Gwynn 1939 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. *[https://archive.org/details/wayoftransgresso00fars/page/582 Peshawar, 1930], page 583 ''The Way of a Transgressor'' by Negley Farson 1936 Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.76543/page/n3 2nd file] Archive.org. The India chapters continue to page 591. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negley_Farson Negley Farson] Wikipedia. The author was then an American foreign correspondent, one of the most renowned of his day.*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.449186 ''Official History of Operations on the N.-W. Frontier of India, 1920-35''] by General Staff Army Headquarters, India 1945. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes some content about the 1930 riots. :It is also available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/official-history-of-operations-on-the-north-west-frontier-of-india-1920-1935/ ''Official History Of Operations On The North-West Frontier Of India 1920-1935''] Naval & Military Press</ref> which in turn is available as part of an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.<ref name=NWF>[https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvs1LINNg2y ''Official History of Operations on the NW Frontier of India''] fold3 (located in Military books/India). Consists of 2 books.</ref>*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527935 ''Seven Cantonments''] by Major SEG Ponder c 1938. Archive.org. The author was an Officer in the Royal Artillery, based in the North-West Frontier region, in the c 1930s including Peshawar.*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1969-peshawar-historic-city-of-the-frontier-by-dani-s-pdf/ ''Peshawar - Historic City of the Frontier''] by Ahmad Hasan Dani 1969. Pdf download, PAHAR-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3367/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. [https://archive.org/details/peshawarhistoric0000dani/page/n3/mode/2up 2002 reprint edition] Archive.org books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[http://pahar.in/pahar/2002-from-kashmir-to-kabul-the-photographs-of-john-burke-and-william-baker-1860-1900-by-khan-pdf/ ''From Kashmir to Kabul: The photographs of John Burke and William Baker 1860-1900''] by Omar Khan 2002. Download from Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). Includes chapters about Peshawar, [[Murree]], [[Kashmir]], the [[2nd Afghan War| Second Afghan War]], [[Lahore]].
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