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
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
The Nana, the man who thought himself fit to be a king, decided that Havelock would turn back if there were no more English left in Cawnpore!
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis
On the banks of the Ganges stands a dull old city, of which Bayard Taylor once wrote: "Cawnpore is a pleasant spot, though it contains nothing whatever to interest the traveller."
From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
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