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See also:CAWNPORE, or KANPUR , a See also:city and See also:district of See also:British See also:India in the See also:Allahabad See also:division of the See also:United Provinces. The city is situated on the See also:south See also:bank of the See also:Ganges, 40 M. south-See also:west of See also:Lucknow, and formed from See also:early times a frontier outpost of the See also:people of Oudh and See also:Bengal against their See also:northern neighbours. See also:Clive selected it, on See also:account of its commanding position, as the See also:cantonment for the See also:brigade of troops See also:- LENT (0. Eng. lenclen, " spring," M. Eng. lenten, lente, lent; cf. Dut. lente, Ger. Lenz, " spring," 0. H. Ger. lenzin, lengizin, lenzo, probably from the same root as " long " and referring to " the lengthening days ")
lent him by the See also:nawab of Oudh. In 18o1, when the Ceded Provinces were acquired by the See also:East India See also:Company, it became the See also:chief British frontier station. But by the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the See also:Mutiny the frontier had See also:left it behind, and it was denuded of troops. Now it is chiefly known as the junction of four See also:railways, the East See also:Indian, Oudh & Rohilkand, See also:Rajputana and Indian Midland, and as a See also:great See also:emporium for See also:harness, shoes and other See also:leather-See also:work. In 1901 the See also:population was 197,170, showing an increase of 4 % in the See also:decade. In 1903 the city was devastated by an epidemic of See also:plague.
The name of Cawnpore is indelibly connected with the blackest See also:episode in the See also:history of the Indian Mutiny—the See also:massacre here in, See also:July 18$7 of hundreds of See also:women and See also:children by the Nana See also:Sahib. The full details of the See also:siege and massacre will be found under INDIAN MUTINY, and here it will suffice to refer to the See also:local memorials of that evil time. The entrenchment, where See also:General See also:Sir H. M. See also:Wheeler with his small See also:band of soldiers and the See also:European and See also:Eurasian residents were exposed for 21 days to the See also:fire of the mutineers, is merely a See also:bare See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, containing the well where many women and children were shot while getting See also:water. This well is now surrounded by an enclosure with an inscription upon its See also:cross. About three-quarters of a mile away, on the See also:banks of the See also:river Ganges, is the Massacre See also:Ghat. A grassy road between banks to to 12 ft. high. leads down to the river, and it was among the trees on these banks that the murderers concealed themselves who shot down the little See also:garrison as soon as they were embarked in the boats which were to take them to safety. On the river bank is a See also:temple to See also:Siva, of hexagonal Shape, old and going to ruin. Steps See also:lead from this temple to an enclosed See also:flight of stairs, which in the See also:cold See also:season descend to the water, but in the rains are covered almost to the See also:top. This is the ghat where some 600 helpless people were slain, in spite of a promise of safe-conduct from the Nana. The remainingems victims, who had escaped the bullets of the siege and survived the butchery of the river bank, were massacred afterwards and See also:cast down the famous well of Cawnpore, which is now marked by a memorial and surrounded by gardens. The memorial is crowned by the figure of an See also:angel in See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:marble, and on the See also:wall of the well itself is the following inscription:
Sacred to the perpetual Memory of a great company of See also:Christian people, chiefly Women and Children, who near this spot were cruelly murdered by the followers of the See also:rebel Nana Dhundu Pant, of See also:Bithur, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the xvth See also:day of July, MDCCCLVII.
The DISTRICT OF CAWNPORE is situated between the Ganges and See also:Jumna See also:rivers, and is a portion of the well-watered and fertile See also:tract known as the See also:Doab, the See also:total See also:area being 2384 sq. m. The general inclination of the See also:country is from See also:north to south. Besides the two great rivers, the See also:principal streams are the Arand or Rhind, the Kavan or Singar, the Isan and the Pandu. The district is watered by four branches of the Ganges See also:canal, and traversed by two lines of railway. It used to be a great centre of the See also:indigo See also:industry, which has now declined. The population in 1901 was 1,258,868, showing an increase of 4 % during the decade.
End of Article: CAWNPORE, or KANPUR
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