Peshawar in 1906

Cunningham Clock Tower, Peshawar, 1906.

Qissa Khwani Bazar, Peshawar, 1906.

Victoria Hall Peshawar (Peshawar Museum), 1906. Peshawar Museum, formerly the Victoria Memorial Hall, was built in 1905. In early years it functioned simultaneously as a dance hall as well as Museum.

Afghan bodyguards of Amir Habibullah Khan, Peshawar, 1907.

Lady Reading hospital of Peshawar is named after whom?

Lord and Lady Reading, 1932. 

The famous Lady Reading hospital of Peshawar is named after Lady Reading (Alice Edith Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading). She was Jewish. Her husband served as Viceroy of India from 1921 to 1926. Lady Reading hospital was originally known as the Agerton Hospital. It was renamed after Lady Reading, Alice Edith, in 1927 since she had donated Rs52,000 for the medical facility's upgradation. 

Note: Reading is an administrative division/a town in Britian. Marquess of Reading is a title.

Peshawar city in 1938

 

. Aerial view of St John's Church in Peshawar city. Via Farrukh Husain

Gor Khatri (square) aerial view from south eastern aspect

street life

street life

Fruit merchant

Michini road, Peshawar, 1919 (c)

 

Michini road, Peshawar, 1919 (c), Photo by Randolph Bezzant Holmes.

Pashtun dresses in early 19th century. Paintings by Imam Bakhsh Lahori

Illustrations by Imam Bakhsh Lahori for the memoirs of General Claude-Auguste Court (French general of Ranjit Singh), Lahore. Source

Yousafzai Pashtun. Source

Peshawari cultivators. Source

A Pashtun cavalier. Source

Inhabitant of Dir (a Yousafzai Pashtun). Source

A man from Tirah of the Khyber region. Source

An inhabitant of Bannu. Source

An Afridi Pashtun. Source

A Mohmand Pashtun. Source

An inhabitant of Bajaur, most likely from the Tarkani or Tarkalanri tribe.

 

Bangash, Turi and Wazir tribesmen, c. 1835.

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.

Peshawar Medical Mission, 1907 (c)

 

Photograph of the main entrance to the mission hospital opened by the Church Mission Society in January 1898. Source Recommended Books

Pashtun wedding procession, Peshawar, 1910 (c)

Pashtun wedding procession, Peshawar, 1910 (c). Photo by R.B.Holmes. Source

Wheat market, Peshawar city, 1900 (c)

 

History of Gor Khatri of Peshawar city

Gor Khuttree is an important monument in the old city of Peshawar. It can be either appraoched from Chowk Yadgar or from Hastnagari Gate. In ancient times it was a Buddhist establishment which later assumed a Hindu character. The earliest account of the site is given by Babur. Both Akbar and Jahangir regard it as a place of jogis (Hindu saints who believe in quiet meditiation). It had become a place of Hindu pilgrimage and its fame had reached far and wide. In the year 1640 AD Jahan Ara Begum, daughter of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, converted the site into Serai Jahanabad and built also a Jami Masjid and a Hammam. During the days of Sikhs the mosque was destroyed, and a temple of Gorakhnath was built on its site. 

Gor Kattri, Peshawar city, 1910 (c). Photo by R.B.Holmes. 

Lord Curzon arrival at Gor Khatri, Peshawar, to receive the address from Municipality of Peshawar city, 1902. Photo by W.D.Holmes.

Hindu ascentics at Gor Khatri in Peshawar, 16th century. A folio from an Illustrated manuscript of Baburnama, ca.1592.