Pashtun soldiers of British-Indian army

Pashtun and Hazara soldiers of the British-Indian Army, 1898. From left to right: Khattak (Jamedar), Ghilzai (Havaldar), Mahsud (Sepoy), Hazara (Sepoy) and Kakar (Sepoy).

Pashtun and Baloch soldiers of British-Indian army, 1897. Photo by Fred Bremner. From left to right: Durrani Pashtun, Wazir Pashtun and Brahui-Baloch. The Durrani in the Photo is referred to as "Afghan"; in 1890s and early 20th century many British officials began to use the term Afghan exclusively for the subjects of Amir Abdur Rahman, Amir Habibullah, King Amanullah etc. of Afghanistan. Pashtuns from present-day Afghanistan (Durranis, Ghilzais etc.) also enlisted themselves in the British-Indian army. While those British officials used the word "Pathan" for Pashtun subjects of British-Indian government. This was obviously done so to create distance between Pashtuns on both sides of Durand line and to integrate Pashtuns under their rule with India.

Caravan gathering to cross the Khyber Pass, 1930 (c)

 

Scene in Quetta city, 1905 (c)

 

Scene in Quetta city, 1905 (c). The image was published by H. Hands & Son

Moharram procession passing in Bazar, Quetta, early 20th century. Postcard photo.

Caravan camels, Khyber Pass, 1905 (c)

 

Caravan camels, Khyber Pass, 1905 (c).

The image was published by H. Hands & Son.

Jawaharlal Nehru’s Visit to NWFP (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) in Photographs

1946: Mahsud Maliks walking out of the Jirga as a body, after declaring to Nehru and the Khan brothers (foreground) that they wanted neither British nor Indian domination, but would stay as they were –independent. 

Caption: "On October 16 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who has claimed that British approach to the N.W tribesmen's problems was entirely wrong, arrived at Peshawar for a goodwill tour of the tribal areas of the North-West Province. His companions were Dr. Khan Sahib, Premier of the N.W. Frontier Province, and his brother Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, leader of the local Congress Party Muslims. Their first engagements were at Razmak and Miranshah, where they met jirgas of the maliks on October 17. At the first (Miranshah), the maliks walked out before hearing Nehru, saying that they were independent and meant to remain so, and that the Muslims were being ill-treated in India and would take revenge. Later, at Razmak, the story was almost the same, and on Nehru's defending Dr.Khan Sahib, described by the tribesmen as an infidel, the maliks again got up and left. On October 20, the party's convoy was ambushed and stoned by tribesmen in the Khyber Pass, and there was some firing both by tribesmen and troops in the convoy." 

A Mahsud Pashtun, 1919

 

A Mahsud Pashtun (mostly likely a Khasadar), Waziristan, 1919 (c). Photo by Randolph Bezzant Holmes.

Source: Imperial War Museum

Cricket match in Kohat, 1862 (c)

 

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Types of the costumes of Pashtuns, Tajiks, Kizalbashes, Mughals, Hazaras etc. of Afghanistan, 1878

 

A British convert to Ahmadiyya/Qadianism at Torkham, Khyber Pass, 1928

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11 January 1928 Torkham. Photo of British Aristocrat Lord Headley who embraced Ahmadiyya/Qadianism and renamed himself Shaikh Rahmatullah al-Farooq. Captioned as "British Muslim peer" in the photo.

His name by birth was: Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley (1855-1935). Photo taken by Arbab Ali Ahmed Jan of Peshawar. 

Rohtasgarh fort, Bihar

 

ATTRIBUTED TO NEIL CORMACK, BRITISH (c.1793 - c.1853), ROHTASGARH, watercolour on paper, framed, 29.5 x 49.5cmRohtas fort, near Sasaram in the state of Bihar, is said to be one of the largest hill forts in the world with its circumference totalling 45km and it is spectacularly positioned on a plateau 1500 feet above the plain. Its ancient origins are not clear. It is only beginning to be visited today, because, until a few years ago, it was headquarters of the Naxalites, a Maoist guerilla group. The fort of the same name near Jhelum in Pakistan was built and named after this one by the Sultan Sher Shah Sur, who is buried in the famous tomb at Sasaram.

Street scene, Peshawar city, 1899

 

Street scene, Peshawar city, 1899

A street in Peshawar city, 1925 (c). Source

Qissa Khwani Bazaar, Peshawar city, 1897

 

Main street, Peshawar city, 1897

Qissa Khwani Bazar, Peshawar, 1922. Photo by Lowell Thomas.

Qissa Khwani street, Peshawar city, 1910 (c). Photo by R.B.Holmes.