KALPI, or CALPEE  , a town of British India, in the Jalaun district of the United Provinces, on the right bank of the Jumna, 45 M . S.W. of Cawnpore . Pop . (1901), 10,139 . It was founded, according to tradition, by Vasudeva, at the end of the 4th century A.U . In 1196 it fell to Kutab-ud-din, the viceroy of Mahommed Ghori, and during the subsequent Mahommedan period it played a large part in the annals of this part of India . About the middle of the 18th century it passed into the hands of the Mahrattas . It was captured by the British in 1803, and since 8o6 has remained in British possession . In May 1858 Sir Hugh Rose (Lord Strathnairn) defeated here a force of about 1o,000 rebels under the rani of Jhansi . Kalpi had a mint for copper coinage in the reign of Akbar; and the East India Company made it one of their principal stations for providing the " commercial investment." The old town, which is beside the river, has ruins of a fort, and several temples of interest, while in the neighbour-hood are many ancient tombs . There is a lofty modern tower ornamented with representations of the battles of the Ramayana . The new town lies away from the river to the south-east .

Kalpi is-still a centre of

local trade (principally in grain, ghi and cotton), with a station on the Indian Midland railway from Jhansi to Cawnpore, which here crosses the Jumna . There are manufactures of sugar and paper .