Earthen pottery, tools and various historical artifacts discovered by the Archaeological Survey of India are presently kept in the Kanpur Sangrahalaya.

According to Paul Whalley, the name Jājmaū may be related to Sanskrit yajña, meaning "sacrifice", which became Old Hindi jaj.

The ending -maū could come from Sanskrit maryādā, meaning "shore" or "bank", or it could be a contraction of the name of the mahuā tree.

The sub metro area of 40 km2 extends from Bibipur in the south to Chandar Nagar in the north and Ramadevi in the east to Jajmau extension in the west.

Jajmau is home to many trees, including mango, orange, guava and banana which are mainly found in a suburb of the city at a nursery in Tagore Ave.

It is home to most of the biggest leather industries in India generating 15000cr of revenues every year and accounting for 30% of Indian Export.

Going down the side of the hill opposite to the river is a settlement for nearly half a million people mostly involved in leather industry.

[3] Also in the shrine there are two ancient carved inscribed stone tablets grafted in wall which are in Arabic and inform that Sultan Feroze Shah Tughlaq had visited the mausoleum and had the shrine built i.e. Mazar of Qazi Alaulhaq Waddeen Yusuf in the year 761 Hijri, and Masjid (mosque) inside the Dargah campus in 762 Hijri.

The ASI (Archaeological Survey of India) had photographed/copied the stone inscriptions of Dargah Makhdoom Shah Ala of years 761 and 762 Hijri and also from Dargah Dada Miyan (Qazi Sirajul Haq Waddeen the father of Makhdoom Aala) a contemporary of Sultan Qutbuddeen Aibak (1192 AD to 1210 AD) of year 696 Hijri in the campus Eidgah and published the same with their findings in their book Epigraphia Indica—Arabic & Persian Supplement 1964 with special reference to the Farman of Firoz Tuglaq with the Saint's direct descendants Qazi Haseen Ahmed Farooqi.

[4] Copper hoard artefacts and Painted Grey Ware (PGW) sherds were found from the surface deposits of this mound.

[citation needed] Significant archaeological findings from this site during this excavation include a hoard of silver punch-marked coins in a NBPW vase with a lustrous polish, a baked terracotta dabber bearing Brahmi inscription of c. 3rd–2nd century BCE and structures made of mud and baked bricks of Mauryan and pre-Mauryan period.

The first line has been deciphered as bha di ke (Bhadrike) and a single letter, ma in dots is inscribed below it.

Radiocarbon dates found by the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany for the charcoal samples collected from this deposit during this excavation, cultural material and stratigraphy suggest that this part of the mound was settled from c. 1300 – 1200 BCE.

Jajmau experiences heavy fog in December and January, resulting in massive traffic and travel delays.

The people from local areas (Kanpur, Unnao, Fatehpur, Hamirpur, Kannauj, Akbarpur) and Central U.P.

Some other main streets are- Jajmau's tallest structure is the JS The Address in Lal Bungalow at 90 m (295 ft).