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
Last week 100,000 Cawnpore workers were still out.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Was it not good news that the English in Cawnpore were at least endeavoring to hold Nana Sahib at bay?
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Louis Tracy
By riding boldly along the Lucknow Road we shall place many miles between ourselves and Cawnpore before day breaks.”
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Louis Tracy
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