CAWNPUR

[s. 153] : A city in the United Provinces, It lies on the India; entirely a British creation. right bank of the Ganges, 130 miles above the A junction of that stream with the Jumna. body of English troops was stationed near this point something more than a hundred years ago, it being then on the frontier of the English territory. Around the camp, as its nucleus, a city sprang into being. It is now of great importance both as a railroad center manufacturing place; leather and and a are especially the former cotton goods produced here in large quantities. The chief historic interest centers about the memorial gardens, which occupy the site of the entrenchments within which a body of about 1,000 English (only 400 of whom were capable of bearing arms) took refuge from the native troops under Nana Sahib during the mutiny of 1857. The exact spot of the entrenchments is occupied by the memorial church; and the place of the well into which some 200 bodies were thrown, mostly women and children the victims of Nana is marked by a marble angel Sahib’s ma acre — — — — Caxias Ceylon and a suitable inscription. Population (1901), 197,170, of whom about 125,000 are Hindus. It is a station of the SPG (1839), with 22 mi ionaries, men and women, 46 native workers, men and women, 10 common schools, 2 high schools, 1 orphanage, 1 hospital and 2 hotels for Also station of the Woman’s Union students. Mi ionary Society of America (1879), with mi ionary women, 29 native women workers, 3 11 common schools, 1 orphanage, and 1 training school for women. Also station of the ME, with 4 mi ionaries, men and women, 29 native workers, men and women, 18 common schools, 2 high schools, and 430 profe ing Christians. 154