an industrial city in NE India, in S Uttar Pradesh on the River Ganges: scene of the massacre by Nana Sahib of British soldiers and European families and his later defeat by British forces in 1857. Pop: 2 532 138 (2001)
Former name: Cawnpore
Kanpur in American English
(ˈkɑnˌpʊr)
city in N India, on the Ganges, in Uttar Pradesh: pop. 1,639,000