Cawnpore

Cawnpore
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:	26.460738°N, 80.333405°E
Altitude:	126 m (413 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Kanpur
State/Province:	Uttar Pradesh
Country:	India
Transport links
Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway East Indian Railway Great Indian Peninsula Railway Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway

Cawnpore, in north central India, is now known as Kanpur. The nearest large city is Lucknow. Cawnpore was the scene of the infamous Siege of Cawnpore and subsequent massacre in 1857, when dozens of British women and children were slaughtered and their bodies thrown down the Bibighar well.

The city was (and remains) an important railway junction, with the East Indian main trunk line from Calcutta to Delhi meeting spurs from the Bombay, Baroda and Central India, Great Indian Peninsula and Oudh and Rohilkhand Railways.

History

Siege of Cawnpore Jun 1857
Cawnpore (Bibigarh)
Recapture of Cawnpore July 1857
Siege of Cawnpore Nov 1857

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Kanpur
Variants: Cawnpore

Modern name:Bibigarh
Variants: Bibigurh/Bibigahr/Bibighar

Cemeteries

• A BACSA (British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia) cemetery publication, but currently (10/2010) out of print, is
  • Kacheri Cemetery, Kanpur : a complete list of inscriptions with notes on those buried there by Zoe Yalland 1985

BACSA have put the indexes to this cemetery book online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.

• Monumental Inscriptions from Cawnpur Cantonment Cemetery from Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica: Fourth Series
  • Volume 1 1906. This is a Preview Google Books and unfortunately only part of the data is shown. This book is available at the British Library. Page 54,page 114, page 145, page 172, page 218
  • Volume 2 1908 Archive.org Page 21, page 61, page 138, page 164. It appears the data continues, probably in Fourth Series, Volume 3, available at the British Library

Education

• Christ Church College, Kanpur. The College began as an S.P.G. [Society for the Propogation of the Gospel] Mission School in the 1840’s. First called Mission School, then Christ Church School, it grew into a College affiliated to the Calcutta University in 1866.
• Girls’High School, (Wikipedia), known as Methodist High School since 1952. Established 1874. It also admitted some boys.

External links

• Cawnpore Love to Know 1911
• Kanpur Wikipedia
• Cawnpore City Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 9, page 315.
• Cawnpore map 1909 Imperial Gazetteer of India Volume 26 Atlas