'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X.' [‎1] (134/458)

TRANSACTIONS
OF THE
BOMBAY GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.
Art. I— Account of the City and Promme of Peshawur. By H. G.
Raverty, Lieutenant 3rd Regt. Bombay Native Infantry.
HISTORY OF PESHAWUR.
From the time of Alexander the Great, and, according to his his
torians, for a long period prior, the countries situated immediately west
of the Indus, and lying between the lofty mountains of Hindu
Kush on the North, and the Indian ocean on the South, were held by,
and were subjected to, a Hindu race, up to the commencement of
the eleventh century of the Christian Era.
The province now called Peshawur, was also subject to the same race
of people, up to the period when Mahmood of Ghuznee first poured
his victorious legions into the plains of India, to chastise the Infidel,
and propagate the faith of his Prophet. At that time, it was called the
Tuppah, or district of Bagram, from the town which bore that name,
the present Peshawur.
During my residence there last year, by great good fortune I
obtained a sight of a rare old Persian work, written in the reign of the
great Baber, in which are given the particulars relative to Mahmood’s
undertaking his first expedition beyond the Indus, and the reason
his having changed the name of the province to Peshawur.
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