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::FamilySearch have digitised the above BACSA books, which have restricted access, but which may be viewed on a FamilySearch computer at a FamilySearch Centre. [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/471821 Catalogue entry]. For more information, see [[FamilySearch Centres]]. '''Update June 2018. It appears that FamilySearch digital viewing is no longer possible. To be clarified'''.
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==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]
*''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.
====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 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.
*[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.
:Available 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 c1930s 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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