Quick Action is what CM Yogi specialises in. The Left Libbie Lobby is busy capitalising on it...but before they could cry, action is taken by Yogi govt in Kanpur.

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The Last Voyage 2.2.1887. "Arrived at Cawnpore at 2am. Drove at 6.45 through the streets to the Memorial Gardens...Proceeded by train to Lucknow." R.T. Pritchett's drawing "Meari, The Last Of The Thugs" [Thuggee].

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Heyy Mak !! 🖐️🖐️
Thanks for this wonderful thread.

I am Utkarsh Kushwaha, and I'm from Kanpur, India.
I do phone photography but I also Iove to make digital artworks sometimes collage art sometimes photo manipulation.


Here are some of my works:

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Tanner
Grown up in Kanpur thus got used to stinking smell in air while passing thru Jajamau bridge & near Unnao on Lucknow Highway. Tannery on banks of Ganga were contributor of pollution. Present time many changes brought in, don't know new technology being used?
Leather trade

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Preparation of Sati
now abolished
Sketch by Robert Melville Grindlay

reminded of Fanny Parkes wrote about Sati at Kanpur
begum thugs compiled by

cites a manuscript given by Baroda Gaikwad that contained description of rituals
read here👇
https://t.co/eIq1VCOoKn

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Inhabitants from Village of Rania?
Delhi; 1815-1816
painting at David Collection from William Fraser albums

Amiban was his Indian wife

Fraser had very close relationship with native population & spoke their various languages

Reminds रनियां is a village in Kanpur too?

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Wishing happy birthday to respected Sudharani Raghupati ji on her birthday 21 March.
She is inspiration to all dance students and even many great dancers they look at her for अभिनय।
Living at Kanpur I too got to know about her. Admired her. Bought many cassettes 30 years back🙏

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A team of IITians in Kanpur have developed a named
‘Prahari’ which is capable of carrying a load of about 4-5 k and can also patrol sensitive zone for three hours continuously.
https://t.co/dMX2hePXR4
Cc:

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life of Durga Bhabhi was full of struggles.
interesting to note: in those days spread of movement of people. she was born, later lived in Lahore & Delhi, travelled to Kanpur, Lucknow to Calcutta. late she opened school in Lucknow, in old age died at Gaziabad, lived in anonymity

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