The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Prior to 19th century

19th century

20th century

  • 1901 City becomes capital of the North-West Frontier Province. Population: 95,147.
  • 1906 - Victoria Hall built.
  • 1907 - Peshawar Museum founded.
  • 1909 - Ancient Buddhist Kanishka casket discovered by archaeologists in Shah-ji-Dheri near city.
  • 1913 - Islamia College established.
  • 1922 - Kapoor Haveli (residence) built.
  • 1925 - Khaiber railway built.
  • 1930 23 April: Qissa Khwani Bazaar massacre. Novelty cinema opens.
  • 1932 - Khyber Mail newspaper begins publication.
  • 1934 - Landsdowne cinema opens.
  • 1936 - Radio station begins broadcasting.
  • 1939 - Al Falah newspaper begins publication.
  • 1941 Al-Jamiat-e-Sarhad newspaper begins publication. Population: 130,967.

Independence: since 1947

21st century

See also

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

  • Edward Thornton (1844), "Peshawer", Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the Northwest, London: W.H. Allen, hdl:, OCLC
  • E.G.G. Hastings (1878), , Lahore{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • . Gazetteer of the Peshawar District. 1883. p. 287+. OCLC .
  • David Ross (1883), , Land of the Five Rivers and Sindh: Sketches Historical and Descriptive, London: Chapman and Hall
  • Edward Balfour (1885), , Cyclopaedia of India (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch
  • Edward Thornton (1886), , in Roper Lethbridge and Arthur N. Wollaston (ed.), Gazetteer of the Territories under the Government of the Viceroy of India, London: W. H. Allen & Co., OCLC

Published in 20th century

  • The Punjab, its Feudatories, and the North-West Frontier Province. Census of India, 1901. Vol. 17, Part 2. Simla. 1902.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • , Imperial Gazetteer of India (New ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908
  • "Peshawar". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 282–283.
  • , Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon (8th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1911
  • . Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden: E.J. Brill. 1927. p. 1066. ISBN 9789004097926. OCLC . {{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  • Peshawar District Gazetteer, Lahore, 1933{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Ahmad Hasan Dani (1969). Peshawar, Historic City of the Frontier. Peshawar. OCLC .{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Schellinger and Salkin, ed. (1996). "Peshawar". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania. UK: Routledge. p. 669+. ISBN 9781884964046.

Published in 21st century

  • Maneesha Tikekar (2004), "Peshawar", Across the Wagah: an Indian's sojourn in Pakistan, New Delhi: Promilla & Co. in association with Bibliophile South Asia, New Jersey, ISBN 8185002347
  • C.C. Davies; C.E. Bosworth (2007). "Peshawar". In C. E. Bosworth (ed.). Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. p. 426+. ISBN 9789004153882.

External links

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