The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c15.139

v1.c15.139

Peshāwar is the capital of the North-West Frontier Province created in 1901, a strip of hilly country beyond the Indus. Unlike its sister Quetta, it lies in the Indian lowland at the foot of the Khyber pass. It has about a hundred thousand inhabitants, chiefly Musalmān. In the Bāzār are to be seen representatives of many Asiatic races, for Peshāwar is the market of exchange where the great road from Samarkand and Bukhāra, over the Hindu Kush and through Kābul, by the Khyber meets the road from Delhi and Lahore. Here you may buy skeins of Chinese silk, brought by the same roundabout ways that were trodden by the Chinese pilgrims in the Middle Ages.