When NWFP [now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa] was created in 1901, a legal framework (NWFP Law and Justice Regulation VII) was enacted to set up judicial institutions for the new province under a Judicial Commissioner, placing the province’s highest judicial
A British-cantonment era boulevard (running through the Peshawar Cantonment/Saddar area), and until recent decades could well be this peaceful and empty.
After Ahmad Shah Durrani took Peshawar in 1747, Bala Hissar served as a royal residence for the Durrani Empire. This period is strongly associated with the fort’s role as an Afghan administrative and courtly center in the frontier city.
The Victoria Memorial Hall in Peshawar, established in 1907, evolved from a British colonial ballroom into a significant archaeological museum.
Not too far back, the local Hindu, Sikh and Christian communities would participate in the Shia Taziah processions in Peshawar.
Government House in Peshawar was completed in 1903, and has been expanded while keeping the same design since. The angle and style of photographs of Government Houses throughout the Raj were meant to assert the authority of the colonial regime.
Peshawar's city gate facing Kabul decorated for what was likely the then Prince and Princess of Wales visit (later King George V and Queen Mary) to the city on December 2, 1905.
An uncommon shot of Peshawar, showing the density of habitation. In the far left is the Mahabat Khan mosque, built in the 1860s.
Note how this advertisement for family life in the cantonment shows a woman and pram on the verandah.
Women are often shown as dancers, rarely this elderly as beggars on postcards. This photograph was likely taken in a studio, with the woman sitting on a stone which might be covered with animal skins.
