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[[Image:Nwfp_map.jpg|thumb|200px|Map of the province]]
Also seen as '''North-West Frontier Province''' or '''Northwest Frontier Province''' or '''N W F Province'''.
'''North West Frontier Province''' was created out of [[Punjab]] in 1901. It was part of the [[Bengal Presidency]] and it is now a province of [[Pakistan]]. In April 2010, the name of the province was official changed to '''Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa''' by passage of an amendment to the Constitution.
*[http://kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/index.php?id=699 Sketching the Afghan border - The Serving Soldier]
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/northwestfrontie00calcuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series. North -West Frontier Province''] 1908 Archive.org*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/280096 ''Gazetteer Of The Hazara District 1907'']. A volume in the series ''N W F Province Gazetteers''. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*''A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of Punjab and North-West Frontier Province'' by H A Rose 1911-1919. Volumes 1 and 3 pdf downloads Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Volume 2 Archive.org.
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1919-glossary-of-the-tribes-and-castes-of-north-west-frontier-provinces-vol-1-by-rose-reprint-s-pdf/ Volume 1] (1919 reprint); [https://archive.org/details/glossaryoftribes03rose Volume 2 A – K] 1911 ; [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1914-glossary-of-tribes-and-castes-of-punjab-and-north-west-frontier-province-vol-3-l-z-by-rose-s-pdf/ Volume 3 L – Z with appendices A -L] 1914.
*[https://archive.org/details/provincialgeogra01holluoft ''The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province and Kashmir''] by Sir James Douie 1916 Archive.org. A volume in the series ''Provincial Geographies of India ''*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/280933 ''N W F Province Gazetteers Peshawar District Vol.a 1931'']. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.** An earlier publication: [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.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.
*[https://archive.org/details/reportofthenorth029555mbp ''Report Of The North West Frontier Province Subjects Committee 1931''] Archive.org
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1942-handbook-to-the-north-west-frontier-including-jhelum-rawalpindi-and-hazara-districts-by-davey-s-pdf/ '' A Handbook to the North-West Frontier including Jhelum Rawalpindi and Hazara Districts''] by Cyril James Davey 1942. Pdf download Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
