scroll: Pre-Independence Pakistan a Part of British India

Monday, January 7, 2019

Pre-Independence Pakistan a Part of British India

Small stupa from Loriyan Tangai, Peshawar District, photographed after restoration

Photograph of Lord Mayo's party taken in Peshawar Bazaar and one of the series of views by Baker & Burke illustrating his visit to the city in 1870, whilst travelling through the North West Frontier Province

The caption on the verso of the photograph reads 'Captain Mackenzie's house at Abbottabad'. Abbottabad was founded in 1853 by Major James Abbott, the first Deputy Commissioner of the Hazara District (1847-53).3
Pen-and-ink and water-colour drawing of the Kala Viaduct in the North-West Frontier Province by Sir Henry Yule (1820-1889) in 1860.

The Buddhist sculpture produced by the Kushans in the Swat Valley was referred to as Gandharan, and was influenced by Graeco-Roman elements

Kabul river, Peshawar 1878

Thanks on both accounts. Perhaps mods can change it to something appropriate.
Anyway here is old drawing of Khyber Pass

Maliks (chieftains) of Khyber Pass

This portrait shows the Maliks or village leaders who were relied upon by the British to provide services such as maintaining the peace and keeping frontier roads like that through the Khyber Pass open

Photograph, a formal group portrait of chieftains from Kohistan near the Peshawar border of the North West Frontier Province (now in Pakistan), taken in 1879-80

Photograph showing a British army camp with men of 1 Company, Royal Horse Artillery, posed in the foreground, taken by John Burke in 1878 near the Safed Koh mountain range which runs from east to west at the north-westerly end of the great Himalayan Range.

The British army camped at Safed Sang during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80) as there was a good water supply in the valley. However it was also stony, treeless, dusty and very exposed. The camp was in a strategically important position in the North West Frontier Province on the route from Peshawar (now in Pakistan) to Kabul (Afghanistan).