Kanpur (ind)

Kanpur

Kanpur ranks 1,734th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Sidi Bel Abbès, Sedan, Ardennes, and Burlington, Vermont. Memorable people born in Kanpur include Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Sharmila Tagore, and Harish-Chandra. Memorable people who died in Kanpur include Lakshmi Sahgal, and Clarke Abel. Kanpur has been the birth place of many actors, and military personnels and the death place of many politicians, and physicians. Kanpur is located in India.

Kanpur, originally named Kanhapur and formerly anglicized as Cawnpore, is the second largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh after Lucknow. It was the primary financial and commercial centre of northern India. Founded in the year 1207 by Rajput ruler Raja Kanh Deo, Kanpur became one of the most important commercial and military stations of British Raj. Kanpur had been the major financial and industrial centre of northern India and also the ninth-largest urban economy in India. Today it is famous for its colonial architecture, gardens, sweets, dialect, and high-quality leather, plastic and textile products which are exported mainly to the West. Read more on Wikipedia