Kanpur | The Historical Facts

 

Kanpur, in the past Cawnpore, city, southwest-focal Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It lies in the Lower Ganges-Yamuna Doab on the Ganges (Ganga) River, around 45 miles (72 km) southwest of Lucknow

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Kanpur was just a town when it and the encompassing region were gained in 1801 by the British, who made it one of their boondocks stations. The town was one of the central focuses during the beginning phases of the Indian Mutiny (1857–58). In July 1857 British soldiers and European ladies and kids were slaughtered there by revolting sepoys (British-utilized Indian soldiers) drove by Nana Sahib. Their bodies were tossed into a well, despite the fact that it was said that a portion of the casualties was as yet alive; a remembrance was subsequently worked at the site of the well. English soldiers soon retook Kanpur and claimed ruthless reprisal on any radicals associated with complicity in the slaughter.

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Kanpur is the second most crowded city in Uttar Pradesh, after Lucknow, and its metropolitan agglomeration is among the biggest in India. It is a significant street and rail center and has an air terminal for homegrown flights. The city is a significant business and mechanical focus and is particularly prestigious for its calfskin industry, which incorporates a portion of the world's biggest tanneries. The focal piece of the city lies northwest of a cantonment (army base); the vast majority of its industry is still farther northwest. The metropolitan region likewise incorporates three railroad states and Armapur, a suburb. There is a military runway close by. Kanpur has a college; universities of medication, law, and instruction; the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (set up 1959); and an administration trial ranch. Remarkable structures incorporate a consecrated Hindu glass sanctuary and Kamla Retreat, a lay house on a little lake. There are a few exhibition halls.

The encompassing locale is a rich stretch of the alluvial plain between the Ganges and Yamuna streams. It is watered by feeders of the two waterways and by the Lower Ganges Canal. Yields incorporate wheat, gram (chickpeas), jowar (grain sorghum), and grain. There are mango and mahua (Madhuca latifolia, a medium to a huge deciduous tree that produces oilseeds) forests and dhak (Butea frondosa) woods. Bithur, a notable town on the Ganges just toward the north of Kanpur, is a Hindu heavenly spot; the area contains numerous little sanctuaries worked between the sixth and ninth hundreds of years. Pop. (2001) city, 2,551,337; metropolitan agglom., 2,715,555; (2011) city, 2,765,348; metropolitan agglom., 2,920,496.

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