Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
An old image of Karachi from 1889 Karachi map, 1911 St Joseph's Convent School, Karachi An image from 1930 of Elphinstone Street, Karachi Karachi Municipal Corporation Building, inaugurated in 1932 In 1864, the first telegraphic message was sent from India to England when a direct telegraph connection was laid between Karachi and London. [ 16 ]
1701 to 1783 CE – Kalhora dynasty ruled Sindh 1729– Kalachi-jo Ghote founded. [1]1783 to 1843 CE – Talpur dynasty ruled Sindh 1838 - Population: 15,000. [2]1839 - British military occupation begins.
The British East India Company captured Karachi on 3 February 1839 after HMS Wellesley opened fire and quickly destroyed Manora Fort, which guarded Karachi Harbour at Manora Point. [89] Karachi's population at the time was an estimated 8,000 to 14,000, [90] and was confined to the walled city in Mithadar, with suburbs in what is now the Serai ...
The cultural history of Karachi dates back at least five thousand years to the rise of the Indus Valley Civilization in the third millennium BC. [citation needed] The early culture was mostly predominantly Neolithic, characterised by the widespread use of small tools and semi-precious stones.
The demographic history of Karachi of Sindh, Pakistan.The city of Karachi grew from a small fishing village to a megacity in the last 175 years. The Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites found by Karachi University team on the Mulri Hills, in front of Karachi University Campus, constitute one of the most important archaeological discoveries made in Sindh during the last fifty years.
Frere Hall (Urdu: فریئر ہال) is a building in Karachi, Pakistan that dates from the early British colonial era in Sindh. Completed in 1865, Frere Hall was originally intended to serve as Karachi's town hall, [ 1 ] and now serves as an exhibition space and library.
The first influx occurred in 1725, when Sindhi banyas (wāniya) came and expanded it, before Karachi was formally established in 1729. [2] Further waves of Baloch migrants arrived in 1770 and 1795. [2] After Karachi was developed under British rule, large waves of Baloch migrants settled in the Lyari from the Iranian portion of Balochistan. [2]
During this time, Keamari was the landing point for all goods and people entering Karachi. Kemari's anchorage during the early colonial era was too shallow for large ships, and so those were instead forced to dock at Manora. [4] The 3-mile-long Napier Mole Road was built in 1854 as a raised embankment which connected Karachi with Keamari. [5]