Kanpur (ind)

Kanpur

Kanpur ranks 2,439th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Maisons-Laffitte, Meudon, and La Louvière. Memorable people born in Kanpur include Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Harish-Chandra, and Poonam Dhillon. Memorable people who died in Kanpur include Clarke Abel and Lakshmi Sahgal. Kanpur has been the birth place of many military personnels and mathematicians and the death place of many physicians and politicians. Kanpur is located in India.

Kanpur ( ), formerly anglicized as Cawnpore, is a large industrial city located in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Founded in year 1207, Kanpur became one of the most important commercial and military stations of British India. Kanpur is also the financial capital of Uttar Pradesh and part of upcoming Bundelkhand Industrial Development Authority i.e. BIDA Nestled on the banks of Ganges River, Kanpur has 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. Read more on Wikipedia