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*Maitrey Bajpai’s [http://cawnporethefilm.blogspot.com/2010/08/brief-history-industrialization.html Industrialisation in Cawnpore]
*The books ''Traders and Nabobs: The British in Cawnpore 1765-1857'' by Zoe Yalland 1987 and ''Boxwallahs : the British in Cawnpore, 1857-1901'' by Zoë Yalland 1994 are available at the [[British Library]], A description of the latter book is given in this [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2198795 link]
*[http://www.arklowsc.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=9 Arklow Sailing Club’s Cawnpore Cup] was presented by Henry Horsman, born in Cawnpore in 1927. His father, Albert Horsman , born 1892, was a boxwallah who owned and ran, with his brother Harry, the Swadeshi Cotton Mill in Cawnpore. The "Ursula Horsman Memorial Hospital" in Cawnpore is named after Henry’s mother, who died in an aeroplane crash in 1935. [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ/2008-07/1216188740 Details of the Cup] from India-British-Raj Mailing List.
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'''Cawnpore''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V05_235.gif Cawnpore District] in the Allahabad Division of United Provinces during the British period.
== Spelling Variants ==
Modern name: Kanpur<br>
Variants: Cawnpore/Cawnpur/Cawnpoor/Caunpoor / Khanpore <br>
Modern name:Bibigarh<br>
Variants: Bibigurh/Bibigahr/Bibighar<br>
==FIBIS resources==
*[[:Category:Cawnpore images|Images of Cawnpore]]
*[http://gallery.fibis.org/picture.php?/666/category/21 Photograph: Cawnpore Barracks 1915] FIBIS Gallery collection of photographs of Arthur Cecil Gregory who served in the 5th Bn. [[East Surrey Regiment]] in various parts of India during [[First World War|WWI]], including Cawnpore
*"Adam Maxwell of Cawnpore-Indigo and Intrigue" by Judith Vandenburgh Green [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal'']] ''Number 25 Spring 2011'', pages 25-33
*"William Garnett, the Volunteering Major" by Michael Garnett ''FIBIS Journal Number 26 Autumn 2011'', pages 26-30. For details of how to access this article, see [[FIBIS Journals]]
:He was on the Bengal [[Unattached List]] located at Cawnpore from 1883, where he worked for a time at the Army Boot Factory, rising to Commissary and Honorary Major in 1912. He also played a major role c 1884 in the establishment of the [[Cawnpore Light Horse]] and on retirement to England in 1919 held the rank of Company Sergeant Major in this [[Auxiliary Regiments|volunteer regiment]].
*"The Walsh Family and the Cawnpore Massacre" by Paddy Walsh ''FIBIS Journal Number 31 (Spring 2014)'' pages 3-15. For access, see [[FIBIS Journals]]
==Cemeteries==
This cemetery was open 1781-1865 and up to 1846 was known as the Officers’ Burial Ground, as mainly military officers and their families were buried there. It became known as Kacheri Cemetery in 1857. [[Cemeteries#Inscriptions in online books|Blunt]] has some entries under Kachahri Cemetery. Private soldiers were buried at Hiramun-Ku –Purwa (open 1796-1818). The New Cantonment Cemetery was open 1818-1943.<ref>[http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Ij5dojANAG0J:www.rcueslko.org/jnnurm/Kanpur/10%2520Chapter%252010%2520Heritage%2520and%2520Tourism.pdf+Kacheri+Cemetery&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiaO2TnCC6QoI29ymzo1XEalKdCKMMGUXKt3NI2AH-ucD1I2SpIXGzYLPpMz4n8THV71O5FMeuAh6Uwa3-UT_-D_668Te91A7L3tuaJm8iAcyu1pINievxjno5bBLVK0RT3V5dP&sig=AHIEtbRdkoY_o3LJAPK55CJVt3yhqTJZfA Kanpur Heritage and Tourism], page 4 and details from BACSA Archive at the British Library, Mss F370.</ref>
*Monumental Inscriptions from Cawnpur Cantonment Cemetery by Lieut-Colonel W A Gale R.E. from ''Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica: Fourth Series''**Volume 1 1906. This is a Preview Google Books and unfortunately only part At least some of these entries may be found in the data is shown. This book is available at the [[British Library]]. [http://booksfibis.googleourarchives.comonline/booksbin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=m0VJJ6SHMWUC973&pgs_id=PA54 294 FIBIS database: Percy-Smith/Bullock papers: Graves and Monuments]**Volume 1 1906 Archive.org [https://archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea1190bann#page/n127/mode/2up/ Page 54],[httphttps://booksarchive.google.comorg/stream/miscellaneagenea1190bann#page/n253/mode/2up/books?id=m0VJJ6SHMWUC&pg=PA114 page 114], [httphttps://booksarchive.googleorg/stream/miscellaneagenea1190bann#page/n311/mode/2up page 142], [https://archive.comorg/stream/miscellaneagenea1190bann#page/n373/mode/2up/books?id=m0VJJ6SHMWUC&pg=PA145 page 145172],(pages missing prior to [https://archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea1190bann#page/n467/mode/2up/ page 145)216], [httphttps://booksarchive.google.comorg/stream/miscellaneagenea1190bann#page/n551/mode/books?id=m0VJJ6SHMWUC&pg=PA172 2up page 172257], [httphttps://booksarchive.google.comorg/stream/miscellaneagenea1190bann#page/n625/mode/2up/books?id=m0VJJ6SHMWUC&pg=PA216 page 216294] . [httphttps://booksarchive.google.comorg/stream/miscellaneagenea1190bann#page/n697/mode/books?id=m0VJJ6SHMWUC&pg=PA329 2up Index of Names] (Entire book). **Volume 2 1908 Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea02bann#page/20/mode/2up Page 21], [http://www.archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea02bann#page/60/mode/2up/search page 61], [http://www.archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea02bann#page/138/mode/2up/search page 138], [http://www.archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea02bann#page/164/mode/2up/search page 164]. [http://www.archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea02bann#page/340/mode/2up Index of Names] (Entire book). **The last entry of data in 1908 states "To be continued" so tt appears there is more data probably . However, no further inscriptions have been located in ''Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica:Fourth Series, the following Volume 3,'', so it is likely there are no further records. ===Church and perhaps even additional volumescemetery memorial inscriptions===*From Indian Cemeteries website, available at the now archived**[https://web.archive.org/web/20160909074623/http://indian-cemeteries.org/monument_list.asp?town=Cawnpore&cem=All%20Souls%20Church Inscriptions from All Souls Church, Cawnpore]. Includes regimental memorials, **[British Libraryhttps://web.archive.org/web/20071026054052/http://indian-cemeteries.org/cemetery_details.asp?town=Cawnpore&cem=All%20Souls%20Church%20Mutiny%20Memorial All Souls Church Mutiny Memorial in Cawnpore] Click on List all monuments.**[https://web.archive.org/web/20071026053950/http://indian-cemeteries.org/cemetery_details.asp?town=Cawnpore&cem=Christian%20Cemetery Christian Cemetery in Cawnpore]Click on List all monuments.
==Education==
*[http://www.christchurchcollegekanpur.com/about.htm 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.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist_High_School,_Kanpur Girls’High School], (Wikipedia), known as Methodist High School since 1952. Established 1874. It also admitted some boys.
==Economy and Business==
*[http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=6&id=5807&gallery=Bradshaw+family&offset=0 William Bradshaw] was appointed assistant weaving master at Muir Mills in 1931 and worked there until 1952
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170817053724/http://lal-imli.com:80/profile.html Profile of The British India Corporation] (now archived) which was registered as a Limited Company on 24 February 1920, to amalgamate a number of companies, most of which were located in Cawnpore:
**Cawnpore Woollen Mills Co. (established 1876). Still in existence as a Government of India Company, (along with New Egerton Woollen Mills Co. Ltd., Dhariwal, Punjab. (established 1882)).
**Cooper Allen & Co. Ltd. proprietors of the largest Army Boot and Equipment Factory in the world – Kanpur (established 1881)
** North–West Tannery Co. Ltd., Proprietors of the largest and the most up-to-date Tannery in the East – Kanpur (established 1881).
** Cawnpore Cotton Mills Co. Ltd. (established 1882).
** Empire Engineering Co. Ltd., Civil, Mechanical, Motor and Constructional Engineers, Contractors and Builders – Kanpur (established 1894).
* The was a Government Harness & Saddlery Works in Cawnpore in existence in 1928. A marking on a bayonet leather scabbard "Ca1928" indicates the scabbard was from this Government works, manufactured in 1928. (Details<ref>DisasterDog [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/304371-my-first-1907-bayonet/?do=findComment&comment=3209302 My First 1907 Bayonet] ''Great War Forum'' 11 May 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023.</ref>)
==Volunteer Regiments==
== External links ==
*[http://wwwencyclopedia.1911encyclopediajrank.org/Cawnpore CAU_CHA/CAWNPORE_or_KANPUR.html Cawnpore] Love to Know encyclopedia.jrank.org (Online 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica)
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V09_321.gif Cawnpore City] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 9, page 315.
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1909/fullscreen.html?object=69 Cawnpore map 1909] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'' Volume 26 Atlas
*RAF [http://dspacewww.vidyanidhirquirk.org.in:8080com/dspacefail/handle322mu/2009/5504 ''Civic administration 322mu.htm 322 Maintenance Unit and politics in Kanpur since the establishment of the corporation''Demolition Of SEAC Liberators] by A P Tripathi and J.E.H N Sabharwal 3 June 1977. An online thesis from DSpace at VidyanidhiFail. RAF 322 MU Chaberi was located near Cawnpore during World War 2. rquirk. Chapter 1 includes "Origin of Kanpur"com
===Historical books online===
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=qisYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA292 "Scenes in the Mofussil: No I – Cawnpore"] page 292, ''The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany'', Vol 9, New Series, Sept-Dec 1832. Google Books*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/364/mode/2up Cawnpore] page 365 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.279954/mode/2up ''District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh: Volume XIX Cawnpore'' ] by H R Nevill 1909 is available to read online on theArchive.org. [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3109/mode/2up 2nd file] websiteArchive.org
