Karachi Pictures Biography
Sorce (google.com.pk )I had written this about four years back. For some reason, I am not able to update that post. so writing ( or more like....copying ) it again....( I hate blogger ! it has a mind of its own !! Why did I choose this site to start blogging again ??!! )
Victoria Road
My family used to live in a place named Nagar Thatta, near Karachi. My father worked in Karachi. They left Pakistan at the time of Indo-Pak partition in September 1947,when my brother was only 6 days old !
I was born in India,so never really dreamt, nor cared to wonder, how Karachi looked like. I knew about it only from what my parents used to tell me. We did not have any pictures of that place, because my family had to leave Pakistan all of a sudden one night ,without taking much & maybe they did not have any pictures, as in those times, not many people took pictures.
When my nephew sent me these old pictures of Karachi,I was thrilled! I wish,my parents were alive to see these pictures! Maybe they could have recognized these places! My father would have been overjoyed to these photos! What would have been my parents reaction...........I'll never come to know!
Napier Mole Bridge to Kyamari
general view along the iron Napier Mole bridge connecting Karachi with Kiamari
I showed these old Karachi pictures to one of my clients. She is an old lady of 80 years & lives in an old age home, as she has no one. She used to live in Karachi before Indo-Pak partition & I thought, she would love to see these pictures.... & sure enough, so she was!
She told me that I had made her day! She recognised her school in one of the pictures & started telling me all about the places, she saw in the pictures. In this picture, she showed me the place, from where her sister had fallen from the Napier Mole bridge into the river & drowned just two days before her marriage!!! But she was so happy to see these pictures that now she also wants to buy a computer & get internet installed! Whenever I meet her, she remembers these pictures.I think, this would have been my father's reaction, had he seen these pictures, when he was alive! Only if I can turn back times ......!s..i....g.h..
Clerk Street Saddar Bazar
My client recognized her school in this picture by three towers at the far end.
Sind Arts College...
I never asked my father..did he go to this college for his studies??? Now I'll never come to know!
Photograph of the D.J. Sind Arts College (now known as the D. J. Government Science College ) of Karachi , taken by an unknown photographer, c.1900, from analbum of 46 prints titled ' Karachi Views'. Designed by James Strachan and considered this architect's greatest achievement, the college was built between 1887 and1893. Named after the Sindhi philanthropist Dayaram Jethmal, whose two family members contributed towards its cost, the building was constructed in theneoclassical, or 'Italian architectural style'. A considerable amount of money was spent on the interior of the college; the floors comprised mosaic tiles importedfrom Belgium and the eight-foot wide main staircase was fitted with ornamental cast-iron work from McFarlane & Company of Glasgow . Karachi, once thecapital of Pakistan, is now the capital of Sindh province and the major port and main commercial centre of the country. It was a strategically located small port at aprotected natural harbour on the Arabian Sea north-west of the mouth of the Indus, and was developed and expanded by the British when they took over Sindh inthe mid-19th century to serve the booming trade from the Punjab and the wheat and cotton regions of the sub-continent.
Some more old pictures of Karachi...
At the end of the nineteenth century the Trans-Lyari Quarter of the city was made up of a cluster of poor settlements mostly consisting of reed and mud plasteredhuts with some more permanent dwellings. At this time one-quarter of the population of Karachi lived in this area across the Lyari River.
Empress Market
Photograph of Empress Market in Karachi , taken by an unknown photographer, c.1900,The Empress Market was constructed between 1884 and 1889 and was named to commemorate Queen Victoria, Empress of India . It was designed by JamesStrachan, the foundations were completed by the English firm of A.J. Attfield, and the building constructed by the local firm of 'Mahoomed Niwan and DullooKhejoo'. The building was arranged around a courtyard, 130 ft by 100 ft, with four galleries each 46 ft wide. The galleries provided accommodation for 280 shopsand stall keepers; at the time of its construction it was one of seven markets in Karachi.
Saddar Bazar
The Saddar Bazaar at Karachi followed a typical gridiron plan; all the major north-south streets of the Bazaar were laid out at right angles to Bander Road,Frere, Somerset and Elphinstone Streets which along with Victoria Road, linked the northern part of the cantonment to the southern part. The area soon developedinto the most fashionable part of the city, supplying the needs of both its civilian and military part
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