The abundant availability of sole leather and possibly as a natural progression to end product manufacture, shoe industry took roots in Kanpur slowly and steadly.
Agra, which, untill a few years ago, was an established and exclusive nucleus of the shoe industry in India, lost its primacy as well as exclusivity when the shoe industry in Kanpur began expanding.
Starting with a sudden boom in the manufacture of industrial uppers. The industry soon began making fashion uppers.
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India 
