Ghazipur

Ghazipur, a city of India, capital of a district of the same name in the North-west Provinces, stands on the left bank of the Ganges, 44 miles NE. of Benares. The city, which stretches along the Ganges for about 2 miles, contains the ruins of the Palace of Forty Pillars, and a marble statue by Flaxman to Lord Cornwallis, who died here in 1805. Ghazipur is the headquarters of the Government Opium Department for the North-west Provinces, all the opium from these provinces being manufactured here, and there is some trade in sugar, tobacco, rose-water, and coarse long-cloth. Pop. (1891) 44,970.—The district, of which Ghazipur is the administrative headquarters, has an area of 1462 sq. m., and a pop. of 1,077,909.