Historical Records of the Survey of India
Author : Survey of India
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 1945
Category : India
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Author : Survey of India
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 1945
Category : India
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Author : Derek J. Waller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 2004-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813191003
On a September day in 1863, Abdul Hamid entered the Central Asian city of Yarkand. Disguised as a merchant, Hamid was actually an employee of the Survey of India, carrying concealed instruments to enable him to map the geography of the area. Hamid did not live to provide a first-hand count of his travels. Nevertheless, he was the advance guard of an elite group of Indian trans-Himalayan explorers -- recruited, trained, and directed by the officers of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India -- who were to traverse much of Tibet and Central Asia during the next thirty years. Derek Waller presents the history of these explorers, who came to be called "native explorers" or "pundits" in the public documents of the Survey of India. In the closed files of the government of British India, however, they were given their true designation as spies. As they moved northward within the Indian subcontinent, the British demanded precise frontiers and sought orderly political and economic relationships with their neighbors. They were also becoming increasingly aware of and concerned with their ignorance of the geographical, political, and military complexion of the territories beyond the mountain frontiers of the Indian empire. This was particularly true of Tibet. Though use of pundits was phased out in the 1890s in favor of purely British expeditions, they gathered an immense amount of information on the topography of the region, the customs of its inhabitants, and the nature of its government and military resources. They were able to travel to places where virtually no European count venture, and did so under conditions of extreme deprivation and great danger. They are responsible for documenting an area of over one million square miles, most of it completely unknown territory to the West. Now, thanks to Waller's efforts, their contributions to history will no longer remain forgotten.
Author : Matthew H. Edney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226184883
The reshaping of cartographic technologies in Europe into their modern form, including the adoption of the technique of triangulation (known at the time as "trigonometrical survey") at the beginning of the nineteenth century, played a key role in the use of the GTS as an instrument of British cartographic control over India. In analyzing this reconfiguration, Edney undertakes the first detailed, critical analysis of the foundations of modern cartography.
Author : Tim Dyson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000567311
When this book was originally published in 1989 here had been virtually no studies of the country’s historical demography. This volume was significant for 3 reasons: it contributed greatly to the knowledge of India’s population history; it had major implications for the work of social and economic historians of India; and lastly the Indian context provides an excellent laboratory in which to investigate certain large-scale demographic phenomena – among others the experience of bubonic plague, influenza, cholera and famine.
Author : Das Gupta
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 1900
Category : India
ISBN : 8131753751
Science and Modern India: An Institutional History, c.1784-1947: Project of History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, Volume XV, Part 4 comprises chapters contributed by eminent scholars. It discusses the historical background of the establishment of science institutes that were established in pre-Independence India, and still exist, their functions and their present status. This volume discusses Indian science institutes that specialize in a particular field. It also delves into the area of engineering sciences.
Author : Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 1240 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 1999
Category : India
ISBN : 9788131728185
Author : Bernardo A. Michael
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 24,15 MB
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0857285327
“Statemaking and Territory in South Asia: Lessons from the Anglo–Gorkha War (1814–1816)” seeks to understand how European colonization transformed the organization of territory in South Asia through an examination of the territorial disputes that underlay the Anglo–Gorkha War of 1814–1816 and subsequent efforts of the colonial state to reorder its territories. The volume argues that these disputes arose out of older tribute, taxation and property relationships that left their territories perpetually intermixed and with ill-defined boundaries. It also seeks to describe the long-drawn-out process of territorial reordering undertaken by the British in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that set the stage for the creation of a clearly defined geographical template for the modern state in South Asia.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Bengal (India)
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Author : James Mill
Publisher :
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 25,80 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Hindus
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Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Paleontology
ISBN :
Includes index to the genera and species described in the Palaeontologia Indica up to the year 1891.