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Kanpur Sangrahalaya (Hindi: कानपुर पुरातत्व संग्रहालय), also known as Kanpur Museum, is the official museum in Kanpur, the industrial hub of Uttar Pradesh, India. It was built by the British as King Edward Memorial Hall in honour of Edward VII. It is a storehouse of artifacts and exhibits that tell ...
Kanpur, India is the most cosmopolitan city in the state of Uttar Pradesh with vast number of ethnic groups and races. [1] The city is mostly occupied by people from Uttar Pradesh . However, beside from Uttar Pradesh there are also people from other states and countries like- Punjabis , Irish, Bengalis , South Indians , Anglo Indian , Gujaratis ...
Bithoor is a Nagar Panchayat city in district of Kanpur Nagar, Uttar Pradesh. The Bithoor city is divided into 10 wards for which elections are held every 5 years. As of 2001 India census, [9] Bithoor had a population of 9647. Males constitute 55% of the population and females 45%.
The last Peshwa, Baji Rao II, was defeated by the British East India Company in the Battle of Khadki which was a part of Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–1818). The Peshwa's land (Peshwai) was annexed to the British East India Company's Bombay province, and Bajirao II, the Peshwa was pensioned off.
India has the second-largest newspaper market in the world, with daily newspapers reporting a combined circulation of over 240 million copies as of 2018. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] There are publications produced in each of the 22 scheduled languages of India and in many of the other languages spoken throughout the country .
The Marathi people form an ethnolinguistic group that is distinct from others in terms of its language, history, cultural and religious practices, social structure, literature, and art. [93] The traditional caste hierarchy was headed by the Brahmin castes-the Deshasthas, Chitpavans, Karhades, Saraswats, and the Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhus. [94]
In the year 2000, the Mayawati government did a major reshuffle of the Allahabad division, and a separate Kanpur division was created. The Kanpur district itself was bifurcated into Kanpur Dehat and Kanpur Nagar. Kanpur Dehat was renamed as Ramabai Nagar, after Ramabai (1896-1935), the wife of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. In 2012, the name was ...
Bhitargaon is a town, near city of Kanpur in Kanpur Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India, known for its ancient Hindu temple, the largest Indian brick temple to survive from the time of the Gupta Empire. Despite being heavily restored, a number of original features remain. [1] It is dated to the late 5th century. [2]