Kanpur

Kanpur
Cawnpore

Kanpur

Clockwise from top right: Green Park Stadium; Civil Lines district; Kanpur Police headquarters; Landmark Hotel; Kanpur Memorial Church; JK Temple
Nickname(s): "Leather City of the world";[1] "Manchester of the East"[2]
Kanpur

Kanpur

Coordinates: 26°27′00″N 80°19′55″E / 26.449923°N 80.331874°E / 26.449923; 80.331874Coordinates: 26°27′00″N 80°19′55″E / 26.449923°N 80.331874°E / 26.449923; 80.331874
Country India India
State Uttar Pradesh
District Kanpur Nagar District
Kanpur Dehat District
Government
 • Mayor Shri Jagat Vir Singh Drona
 • Deputy Mayor Shri Haji Suhail Ahmed
 • Municipal Commissioner Shri Avinash Singh
Area
 • Metropolis 403.70 km2 (155.87 sq mi)
Elevation 126 m (413 ft)
Population [3]
 • Metropolis 2,767,348
 • Rank 11th
 • Metro[4] 2,920,496
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 208 0xx
 • 209 2xx
  • 209 3xx
  • 209 4xx
Telephone code 0512
Vehicle registration UP-78,77
Coastline 0 kilometres (0 mi)
Sex ratio 0.855 ♂/♀
Literacy 84.37%
Climate Cfa (Köppen)
Website www.kanpurnagar.nic.in
www.kanpurdehat.nic.in

Kanpur (/ˈkɑːnpʊər/  pronunciation ; formerly Cawnpore) is the 11th most populous city in India and the largest city in the state of Uttar Pradesh followed by Lucknow. It is the administrative headquarters of Kanpur Nagar district and Kanpur division.

The name is believed to have derived from Karnapur (meaning "town of Karna", one of the heroes of the Mahabharata). Another theory is that it came from the nearby town of Makanpur, earlier known as Khairabad, where the Sufi saint of the Madariya Sufi order, Badiuddin Zinda Shah Madar, settled.[5]

History

In 1207, Raja Kanh Deo of the Kanhpuria clan established the village of Kanhpur, which later came to be known as Kanpur.[6][7]

1857 uprising

In the 19th century, Cawnpore was an important British garrison with barracks for 7,000 soldiers. During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, 900 British men, women and children were besieged in the fortifications for 22 days by rebels under Nana Sahib Peshwa. They surrendered on the agreement that they would get safe passage to the nearby Satti Chaura Ghat whereupon they would board barges and be allowed to go by river to Allahabad.[8]

Though controversy surrounds what exactly happened at the Satti Chaura Ghat, and who fired the first shot, it is known that, soon afterwards, the departing British were shot at by the rebel sepoys and were either killed or captured. Some of the British officers later claimed that the rebels had, on purpose, placed the boats as high in the mud as possible, to cause delay. They also claimed that Nana Sahib's camp had previously arranged for the rebels to fire upon and kill all the English. Although the East India Company later accused Nana Sahib of betrayal and murder of innocent people, no evidence has ever been found to prove that Nana Sahib had pre-planned or ordered the massacre. Some historians believe that the Satti Chaura Ghat massacre was the result of confusion, and not of any plan implemented by Nana Sahib and his associates. Lieutenant Mowbray Thomson, one of the four male survivors of the massacre, believed that the rank-and-file sepoys who spoke to him did not know of the killing to come.[9]

Many were killed and the remaining 200 British women and children were brought back to shore and sent to a building called the Bibighar (the ladies' home). After some time, the commanders of the rebels decided to kill their hostages. The rebel soldiers refused to carry out orders and butchers from the nearby town were brought in to kill the hostages three days before the British entered the city on 18 July. The dismembered bodies were thrown into a deep well nearby. The British under General Neill retook the city and committed a series of retaliations against the rebel Sepoys and those civilians caught in the area, including women, children and old men. The Cawnpore Massacre, as well as similar events elsewhere, were seen by the British as justification for unrestrained vengeance.[10] "Remember Cawnpore" became a war cry for British for the rest of the rebellion war.

Climate

Climate data for Kanpur
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 31.1
(88)		 35.6
(96.1)		 42.8
(109)		 45.6
(114.1)		 47.2
(117)		 47.3
(117.1)		 45.0
(113)		 40.6
(105.1)		 40.0
(104)		 40.6
(105.1)		 36.1
(97)		 31.3
(88.3)		 47.3
(117.1)
Average high °C (°F) 23.1
(73.6)		 25.9
(78.6)		 32.3
(90.1)		 38.3
(100.9)		 40.7
(105.3)		 39.0
(102.2)		 33.8
(92.8)		 32.9
(91.2)		 33.2
(91.8)		 33.0
(91.4)		 29.4
(84.9)		 24.8
(76.6)		 32.2
(90)
Average low °C (°F) 7.9
(46.2)		 10.3
(50.5)		 15.3
(59.5)		 21.4
(70.5)		 25.4
(77.7)		 27.4
(81.3)		 26.3
(79.3)		 25.9
(78.6)		 24.6
(76.3)		 19.6
(67.3)		 13.0
(55.4)		 8.6
(47.5)		 18.7
(65.7)
Record low °C (°F) 1.6
(34.9)		 0.6
(33.1)		 7.2
(45)		 11.1
(52)		 16.4
(61.5)		 20.6
(69.1)		 21.7
(71.1)		 21.7
(71.1)		 11.8
(53.2)		 4.6
(40.3)		 0.5
(32.9)		 −0.9
(30.4)		 −0.9
(30.4)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 18.7
(0.736)		 15.7
(0.618)		 8.3
(0.327)		 7.4
(0.291)		 19.8
(0.78)		 99.0
(3.898)		 300.8
(11.843)		 233.1
(9.177)		 188.7
(7.429)		 53.8
(2.118)		 5.1
(0.201)		 9.1
(0.358)		 959.6
(37.78)
Average rainy days 1.9 1.5 1.0 0.8 1.2 4.6 13.7 10.7 6.8 2.1 0.4 0.7 45.5
Source: India Meteorological Department (record high and low up to 2010)[11][12]

Surrounding areas

Adjacent places of Kanpur
 GT Amusement Park Town (GTAPT) Gangotri Township Shuklaganj
New Kanpur City Kanpur Cantonment
   Kanpur City  
Rawatpur, shivrajpur, bilhaur, kannuj Fazalganj Govind Nagar

Civic administration

Kanpur Municipal Corporation HQ
Kanpur City officials
Divisional Commissioner
Pradeep Kumar Mohanty[13]
District Magistrate
Surendra Singh[14]
Mayor
Capt. Jagat Vir Singh Drona[15]
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
Shabistan Aquil[16]
Metropolitan Magistrate
Nidhi Yadav
Ujjwal Upadhyay[17]

Demography

As per 2011 census Kanpur city has a population of 2,701,324. The total population of the district is 4,524,324 out of which males were 24,59,806 and females were 21,21,462. The literacy rate was 70.76 per cent.[18]

Hinduism is majority religion in Kanpur city with 78.03 % followers. Islam is second most popular religion in city of Kanpur with approximately 19.85 % following it. In Kanpur city, Christinity is followed by 0.46 %, Jainism by 0.20 %, Sikhism by 1.01 % and Buddhism by 1.01 %. Around 0.02 % stated 'Other Religion', approximately 0.39 % stated 'No Particular Religion'.[19]

There are 35 Parsis in Kanpur with their Fire Temple at The Mall.[20]

Metropolitan area

The metropolitan region defined under JNNURM by Kanpur Nagar Nigam, includes the Kanpur Nagar Nigam area, 8 kilometre around KNN boundary and newly included 47 villages of Unnao district on the north-eastern side, it extends to Murtaza Nagar, in the west its limit is up to Akbarpur, Kanpur Dehat Nagar Panchayat limit, in the eastern side the limit has been expanded on the road leading to Fatehpur and in extended up to. The metropolitan region area includes the area of Shuklaganj Municipal Committee (Nagar Palika), Unnao Municipal Committee (Nagar Palika), Akbarpur Village Authority (Nagar Panchayat) and Bithoor Village Authority (Nagar Panchayat) area.[21] In 1997-98, total metropolitan region area has increased to 89131.15 hectare out of which 4,743.9 hectare (5.31%) was non-defined (prohibited area) and rest 29,683 hectare and 54,704 hectare (61.39%) was urban and rural area respectively.

Transport

Airways Kanpur Airport has scheduled commercial flights to Delhi. The nearest International Airport is the Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport at Lucknow, which is around 77.1 km from Kanpur.

Roadways

The city has had chronic problems with maintaining local roads.[22] There are several important National Highways that pass through Kanpur.

NH No Route Total Length
NH 2 Delhi » Mathura » Agra » Kanpur » Allahabad » Varanasi » Mohania » Barhi » Palsit » Dankuni (near Kolkata) 2542
NH 25 Lucknow » Kanpur » Jhansi 352
NH 86 Kanpur » Hamirpur » Mahoba » Chhatarpur » Sagar » Bhopal » Indore 674
NH 91 Ghaziabad » Aligarh » Etah » Kannauj » Kanpur 405
NH 157 (Proposed) Kanpur » Raebareli » Sultanpur » Shahganj » Azamgarh » Gaura Barhaj » Siwan » Muzaffarpur 581

The Inter State Bus Station (ISBT) of Kanpur officially named as the "Shaheed Major Salman Khan Bus Station". It is locally known as the "Jhakarkati Bus Station" enquiry number: 0512 2328381. It provides buses to important cities of India. The other bus stations are:[23]

Ring road

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is all set to develop a four-lane outer ring road along the periphery of Kanpur with an aim to prevent traffic congestion in the industrial city caused by long-distance heavy vehicles. The new road, which will help the heavy vehicles to bypass the city, will be developed on a "Built, Operate and Transfer" (BOT) basis under the phase-VII of National Highways Development Programme (NHDP).[24]

Railways

Kanpur Central is the major rail head. Beside, Kanpur Anwarganj, Panki, Govindpuri, Rawatpur and Kalyanpur are major railway halt stations. Kanpur Metro is planned MRTS for the city.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "Kanpur India - Kanpur Uttar Pradesh, Kanpur City, Kanpur Guide, Kanpur Location". Iloveindia.com. Retrieved 2012-12-19.
  2. ↑ "Nick Name of Indian Places". Facts-about-india.com. Retrieved 2012-12-19.
  3. ↑ "Uttar Pradesh (India): Districts, Cities, Towns and Outgrowth Wards - Population Statistics in Maps and Charts". City population.de.
  4. ↑ "Uttar Pradesh (India): State, Major Agglomerations & Cities - Population Statistics in Maps and Charts". City population.de.
  5. ↑ Suvorova, Anna Aronovna (2004). Muslim saints of South Asia: the eleventh to fifteenth centuries- Volume 14 of RoutledgeCurzon Sūfī series. Routledge. p. 171. ISBN 0-415-31764-9.
  6. ↑ "Kanpur History - History of Kanpur City- History of Kanpur India". Journeymart.com. Retrieved 2015-07-29.
  7. ↑ "Man" (PDF). Dspace.wbpublisher.gov.in. p. 479. Retrieved 2015-07-29.
  8. ↑ Wright, Caleb (1863) [1863]. Historic Incidents and Life in India. J. A. Brainerd. p. 239. ISBN 978-1-135-72312-5.
  9. ↑ Sen, Surendra Nath (1995) [1957]. Eighteen Fifty-seven. Publications Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India. p. 145. ISBN 81-230-0093-6.
  10. ↑ Dalrymple, W. 2007. The Last Mughal. The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857, Alfred Knopf, New York
  11. ↑ "Kanpur Climatological Table Period: 1971–1990". India Meteorological Department. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Ever recorded Maximum and minimum temperatures up to 2010" (PDF). India Meteorological Department. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 May 2013. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Mohammad Iftikharuddin, new Kanpur commission er". The Times of India. 2014-04-24. Retrieved 2010-05-05.
  14. ↑ "Dr Roshan Jacob is new Kanpur DM". The Times of India. 2012-03-20. Archived from the original on 2013-01-26. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
  15. ↑ "S.K. Nataraj elected Mayor of Kanpur". The Hindu. 2010-04-24. Retrieved 2010-05-05.
  16. ↑ "Court dismisses complaint against Mulayam". The Times of India. 2012-03-29. Retrieved 2010-05-05.
  17. ↑ "Metropolitan Magistrate". Kanpur District Court. 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
  18. ↑ "Urban Agglomerations/Cities having population 1 lakh and above" (PDF). Provisional Population Totals, Census of India 2011. Retrieved 2012-07-07.
  19. ↑ "Kanpur City Census 2011 data". Census 2011 India. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  20. ↑ "Appeal – Cawnpore Parsee Anjuman, Kanpur | Parsis, Iranis, Zarathushtis - ALL Under One Roof". Zoroastrians.net. Retrieved 2015-07-29.
  21. ↑ "Final Report : Kanpur City" (PDF). Jnnurm.nic.in. Retrieved 2015-07-29.
  22. ↑ Potholed roads, eight to ten hours long power cut, overflowing drains and contaminated drinking water which lead to bad health and contagious diseases tell the tale of the Industrial town, which is fast turning into a big slum. Siddiqui, Faiz Rahman (29 April 2014). "'Outsider' Joshi takes on 'local' Jaiswal". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 21 July 2014.
  23. ↑ "UPSRTC". UPSRTC. Retrieved 2012-12-19.
  24. ↑ "Kanpur to get outer ring road to bypass traffic blues". Indianepress.com. Retrieved 2011-01-20.

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