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The colorful bazaars (markets) of Peshawar have long offered goods from all over Central Asia and the Indian sub-continent
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Peshawar's location near the entrance to the Khyber Pass made it a major trading center for merchants bringing goods to and from India. From copper - which Peshawar is famous for - to textiles and spices, to electronic goods smuggled in from Afghanistan without duty being paid, Peshawar remains a bustling bazaar town for legal and illegal contraband.
Mela Ram & Sons was one of Peshawar's most famous early photographic studios. Mela Ram began his career as an army photographer in the 1890s, and took numerous portraits of British soldiers in Peshawar as well as city shots published as real photo postcards in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1947 his son Roshan Lal Mehra left Pakistan and became photographer to the Doon School in Dehradun, one of India's foremost boarding schools, until he passed away in 2002. |
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