Diamond In The Rough - Peshawar - "The Jewel of the Pathans"
Original photos and text appeared in HALI 80, © 1995
The title of this article was adapted from the 19th century British descriptions of Peshawar as it existed at that time. Always known as a bustling bazaar town, a crossroads for trade from all over the Asia, populated by different sorts from Hindu fakirs to gun wielding tribesmen from the surrounding mountains to the bearded Sikh traders to Uzbek khans and the descendents of Moghul royalty, Peshawar was known in the 19th century as the "jewel of the Pathans", a distinctly Pathan town but a jewel, a treasure like no other city on the sub-continent. In spite of the many changes, the political upheavals and inbred colonial corruption, it remains an invigorating city, full of the vitality of life with its thumb on the very pulse of Central Asia itself as well as touching the mysteries and intrigue of the vast Indian sub-continent to the east.
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