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 Sharmila Tagore, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, and Harish-Chandra. Memorable people who died in Kanpur include Clarke Abel, and Lakshmi Sahgal. Kanpur has been the birth place of many actors, and military personnels and the death place of many physicians, and politicians. Kanpur is located in India.

Kanpur ( ), formerly anglicized as Cawnpore, is the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was the primary financial and commercial centre of Northern India. Founded in the year 1207 by a Rajput ruler Raja Kanh Deo, Kanpur became one of the most important commercial and military stations of British India. Kanpur is often regarded as the heart of Uttar Pradesh. Kanpur had been the major financial and industrial centre of North India and also the ninth-largest urban economy in India. Today it is famous for its colonial architecture, gardens, sweets, dialect, IT parks and fine quality leather, plastic and textile products which are exported mainly to the West. Kanpur is also the financial capital of Uttar Pradesh. Read more on Wikipedia