The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c15.69
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c15.69
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Cawnpore is the chief inland manufacturing city of India, contrasted in all its ways with Benares. But none of these cities are really great, when compared with the population of the United Provinces. Lucknow is the largest, and has only a quarter of a million inhabitants. Notwithstanding the great changes now in progress, India still presents in most parts essentially the same aspect as in long past centuries.