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Average. Two tears extending 5 inches into printed area from top margin repaired on verso. Verso repairs at fold intersections. Small areas of loss at fold intersections. Closed margin tears repaired on verso. Size 26.25 x 42.25 Inches. An intriguing and evocative piece, this is a 1935 first-edition Survey of India map of Peshawar, Pakistan. This is likely the earliest scientific survey of Peshawar, following the 1927 Survey of India map of Peshawar City - which did not include the Cantonment. The map was issued during the Second Mohmand Campaign, a major British offensive out of Peshawar against the Pashtun Mohmand hill tribes of the Khyber Pass. Historical Context Hoping to maintain their independence, the Mohmand Pashtun plagued the British in Peshawar and vicinity from 1850 onwards. From their outposts in the mountains, they raided British-aligned developments, road work, railroad lines, and trade caravans. There were multiple punitive campaigns against the Mohmand tribes, with fortifications and territories in the Khyber Pass passing back and forth over decades. The final campaign, in 1935 - when this map was issued - saw overwhelming force, including the first use of tanks, deployed against Mohmand, forcing them to finally sue for peace. A Closer Look The map depicts Peshawar and its immediate vicinity. The contrast between the sprawling but organized British Cantonment, the heart of regional British power, and the ancient Pashtun city is noteworthy. The Cantonment is surrounded in barbed wire, walls, and other fortifications, occupying more ground than the city proper - a sober underscoring of regional instability and strategic significance, described by one British officer in 1900 'within a day's ride of our most important garrison, Peshawar, is an absolute terra incognita and there is absolutely no security for British life a mile or two beyond our border.' Military hospitals, headquarters buildings, barracks, other army housing, churches, clubs, and mess halls, among other buildings, are labeled within the cantonment. The entire cantonment lies across the North Western Railway's main line, with the cantonment on the left and Peshawar city on the right. Within Peshawar itself, schools, roads, the clock tower, and Fort B?la Hisar are identified. There is alphabetical index of locations within the cantonment and Peshawar in upper left. It identifies railway stations, bazars, roads, barracks, cinemas, and post and telegraph offices, along with dozens of other locations. Peshawar and British India In 1849, following the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848 - 1849), the British East India Company annexed the Sikh Empire and from that territory created Punjab Province, which encompassed from Delhi to the Afghan border. In 1901, with the Great Game winding down, the British Raj broke off a North-West Frontier Province out of Punjab, setting Peshawar as its provincial capital. With a strategic situation roughly 30 miles from the Khyber Pass, the city emerged as a commercial hub and defensive bastion between India and Central Asia. The Peshawar Cantonment was thus continuously expanded throughout the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century. Part of this project was the construction, largely via coercive labor practices, of the North Western State Railway. The North Western State Railway The North Western State Railway was formed in 1886, shortly after the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878 - 1880) as a means to quickly transport troops to the Afghan border. The NWSR was a consolidation of the Scinde, Punjab and Delhi Railway, the Indus Valley State Railway, the Punjab Northern State Railway, the eastern section of the Sind-Sagar Railway, the southern section of the Sind-Pishin State Railway, and the Kandahar State Railway. It became one of the major rail arteries of British India. After the 1947 Partition, most of the railway became part of Pakistan's national railway network. Publication History and Census This map was creat.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers PeshawarGuide-surveyofindia-1935

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Titel
Peshawar Guide Map.
Autor
1935 Survey of India Map of Peshawar, Pakistan
Veröffentlichungsjahr
1935
Einband
Softcover
Ausgabe
1. Auflage
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