To many
people it may be strange things to know about Peshawar, that why it is called
the city of flower? And how many names has it changed in the course of history.
How it is a city which has faced the British’s atrocities in the colonial era
next only to the jallianwala Bagh tragedy, and how different types of streets
has it got. There is indeed a reason to call it the city of flower, why it is
called the kissa khani (story teller ) bazaar, and similarly the city has undergone
almost eleven names in during the course of history.
It was the
great Mughal king and the founder of the Mughal dynasty in the Sub-continent,
emperor Babur who said that if a blind walks across India, he realize when he
reaches Peshawar by the smell of its flowers, and hence then it has become to be
called as the city of flowers in the discourses of history.
The city
indeed has faced the worst kind of atrocity in term of the loss of human lives
in the British colonial history of the Sub-contitnet, which is only next to the
Jallianwallah Bagh Tragedy of Amritsar. It April 23,1930 that the British
forces opened fire on civilians in the Kissa Khani Barzar and trampled them
under their armored cars. In the ancident 125 civilians were killed and 43 were
missing. It was indeed a massacre next to the Jallianwallah Bagh tragedy, where
the casualties were more than this.
The city has
undergone eleven names in the course of history and arrived the present one
Peshawar. These names are: Caspatyrus, Paruparaesana,
Paraopamisadae,Ghandara,Paraspaur, Purashapura, Poshapura, Polushapulo,Folusha,
Farshabur and PESHAWAR.
Similarly
the city of Peshawar has the following types of streets,The street of Dentists,
the street of potters, the street of felt caps, the street of silver, the street
of money changer, the street of coppersmiths, and the street of English women.
The Kissa
Khani Baazar derives it names from the fact that in the ancient times there used to be
people who would narrate various stories couched in the pashto literary genre
called Badala.
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