Massacre Ghat, Kanpur

Massacre Ghat, originally Satti Chaura Ghat, lies on the southern bank of the Ganges in Kanpur Cantonment near Jajmau, marking the northern edge of the city. Its old name recalls women who committed sati here, remembered by a small temple with steps down to the river for bathing. From pre-colonial times it was a boarding point for boats on the river route from Kanpur to Allahabad.

On 27 June 1857, during what British records call the Siege of Cawnpore, about 200 British men, women and children were killed at the ghat; those who got away died later in the Bibighar Massacre. The ghat was renamed after the rebellion and is also called Nana Rao Ghat, after Nana Sahib. Now looked after by the Kanpur Cantonment Board, it remains in use by local people for bathing and rituals. It has a Hindu temple built in 1966 and an akhara where an annual wrestling contest is held in July or August.