Cawnpore
Britishnoun
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The play was set in the Anglo-Indian community in 1980s Calcutta, and she inhabited a room full of busts of viceroys and royal portraits, reliving the Indian Mutiny with blood-curdling cries of "Remember Cawnpore".
From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2011
The worst recent labor flare-up came last fortnight at Cawnpore, where militant Communist-and Socialist-led workers have developed some new bargaining techniques.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week 100,000 Cawnpore workers were still out.
From Time Magazine Archive
One day Shaikh Ali, a Muhammedan, a landowner from over the river in Oude, whom I knew in the bazaar at Cawnpore, he met me near the bridge resting.
From Strange Stories by Allen, Grant
Presently, the Feringhees moved off again, abandoning Cawnpore, because Havelock Sahib, who was the most terrible of their generals, wanted to go on to Lucknow.
From Strange Stories by Allen, Grant
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