Kanpur
Kanpur (Cawnpore), on the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, was a major industrial and military town under British rule and a centre of the 1857 uprising. The Deobandi scholar Ashraf Ali Thanwi (d. 1943) taught for a time at a madrasa (Jami' al-Ulum) in Kanpur during his career.
Teachers who lived here