Cawnpore
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Five miles from Cawnpore they swept through the hamlet of Mungulwar.
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Louis Tracy
Soon a red glow in the sky proclaimed that they were nearing Cawnpore.
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Louis Tracy
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