Ghazipur

Ghazipur, a district and city in the N.W. Provinces of India. The district contains 2.168 square miles, and consists of a great alluvial plain, which is damp and hot. A railway passes through, and here and there are lakes formed by old river-beds, the rivers having since changed their courses. The town is on the left bank of the Ganges, 44 miles N.E. of Benares, and extends for 2 miles along the river. Its productions are sugar, longcloth, tobacco, and rose-water, and it is the chief seat of the opium trade. Here is to be seen a ruined palace of the Forty Pillars, and Flaxman's statue of Lord Cornwallis, who died Governor-General of India in 1805.