Civil Lines (formerly Cannington also Canning Town
) is a
Civil Lines neighborhood of
Prayagraj
Prayagraj (, ; ISO 15919, ISO: ), formerly and colloquially known as Allahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi, Varanasi (Benar ...
,
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...
,
India
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. It is the upper-class
central business district
A central business district (CBD) is the Commerce, commercial and business center of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides wit ...
of the city and is famous for its urban setting,
gridiron plan
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Two inherent characteristics of the grid plan, fr ...
roads
high rise buildings, offices, cafes, restaurants, hotels, malls, shopping complexes, theatres etc. Built in 1857, under the supervision of Cuthbert Bensley Thornhill, it was the largest town-planning project carried out in India before the establishment of
New Delhi
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.
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History
Civil Lines was built in 1858 a few months after the end of the Rebellion of 1857, when around 600 Meo people Meo people may refer to:
* Meo (ethnic group), a Muslim ethnic group in northern India
*Miao people
Miao is a word that the Chinese use to designate some ethnic minority groups living in southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia. Miao is thu ...
were massacred by the British East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...
's (private) Bengal Army
The Bengal Army was the army of the Bengal Presidency, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire.
The presidency armies, like the presidencies themselves, belonged to the East India Company (EIC) until the Gover ...
under Colonel Neil, in retaliation for their alliance with the Indian Independence Movement activists and eight villages were seized to form a new township.[
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Demographics
A population of 923 was registered in Civil Lines during the 1951 Census.
See also
* List of tourist attractions in Prayagraj
Prayagraj (formerly Allahabad), a city in the State of Uttar Pradesh, India is an important tourist destination attracting many tourists annually. Enriched with a glorious history and being one of the oldest cities in the world. Prayagraj is famo ...
* Neighborhoods of Allahabad
The Old Allahabad City, at the south of Prayagraj Junction Railway Station, consists of neighborhoods like Chowk, Prayagraj, Chowk, Johnstongunj, Dariyabad, Prayagraj, Dariyabad, Khuldabad, Prayagraj, Khuldabad etc. and was in existence from the ...
References
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1857 establishments in India