Gazetteer of the Peshawar District

· 1898 · Public domain (published pre-1930) · archive.org ↗

1Peshawar District. | CONTENTS, ¥

2| Page.

3A list of Deputy Commissioners who have been ap-

4pointed to the Peshawar District since 1850... 88

5A list of Deputy Commissioners who have heen ap-

6oe to the Peshawar District since ae

7sof faksif boundaries... &Q

8Changes Sis wire Penge a ieckipiaret since

9annexation ia go

10Development since annexation as i) of

11CHAPTER IIL—THE PEOPLE,

12Section A.—Statistical—

13Distribution of population ga

14ee eee of population—Migration and birth:

15place of population ... 3

16Migration and birt -place of population—Increase

17and decrease of population are bas o4

18Increase and decrease of population ... 95

19Increase and decrease of = ja Births: and

20deaths ass diva 96

21Births and deaths—Age, sex and civil condition ... 97

22¢, sex and civil condition—lInfirmities aes gh

23Infirmities—European and Eurasian population ... 99

24Section B.—Social and Religious Life—

25Villages er aoa sea 99

26Villages —Habitations sis sai one 100

27Habitations—Food— Hospitality * 101

28Hospitality—Dress—Common usages of society . 102

29Common usages of aera _ 103

30Amusements—TIhe wom 1o4

31The women—Games— Birth—Childhood-—M anhood—

32Old age ave - 105

33Old age— Marriage contracts eas 106

34Marriage contracts—Betrothal—The Wedding be 107

35The V edding—Death 1o8

36Death—General statistics and distribution of re-

37ligions .. va 10g

38General statistics and distribution of religions _ 110

39Superstition—Alms Vit

40Religion of women—Priests—Mul/ahs—Pilgrim-

41apes one ane eae aap Liz

42Pilgrimages 3

43Al . of the principal religious and festive gather-

44itiges . rt.

45A list of the inCT "peli ous ‘dead festive. .

46therings—The | Sabine” ission ea tng

47The Peshawar Mission—Mission School ene re