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
Her eyes were blinded with tears, her brain dazed by the knowledge that her lover had undertaken alone a journey declared impossible from the more favorably situated station of Cawnpore many days earlier.
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis
At Cawnpore a visit was made to the sad memorial of the cemetery, while at Delhi there was further military display and another grand review.
From George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life by Fenn, George Manville
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