Kanpur

Kānpur (known as Cawnpore before 1948) is the most populous city in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Kanpur is located on the banks of the Ganga and is an important industrial center. It has an area of over 1000 km? and had a population of around 2.4 million in the 1991 census. Kanpur is home to several educational institutions, including one of the Indian Institutes of Technology. Kanpur also enjoys the dubious reputation of being the most polluted city in India, a result of vehicular pollution and the poisoning of the Ganga by sewage and toxic effluents from textile and leather industries.

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1948: 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar)....

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