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*[https://archive.org/details/majorjamesrennel00markuoft ''Major James Rennell and the rise of modern English geography''] by Clements R Markham 1895 Archive.org. Rennell arrived in India with the Royal Navy in 1760, transferred to the East India Company in 1763, and in 1764 was appointed Surveyor-General of Bengal, and also was commissioned as a ensign in the Bengal Engineers, aged 21. He remained in India until 1777. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rennell James Rennell] Wikipedia. Also see [[Gazetteers]]
 
*[https://archive.org/details/majorjamesrennel00markuoft ''Major James Rennell and the rise of modern English geography''] by Clements R Markham 1895 Archive.org. Rennell arrived in India with the Royal Navy in 1760, transferred to the East India Company in 1763, and in 1764 was appointed Surveyor-General of Bengal, and also was commissioned as a ensign in the Bengal Engineers, aged 21. He remained in India until 1777. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rennell James Rennell] Wikipedia. Also see [[Gazetteers]]
 
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=eDNcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP1 ''Memoir of Lieut.-Col. John Macdonald''] 1831 Google Books.  He became a cadet of the Bombay Army in 1780, first in the infantry , then the Engineers. In 1782 he joined the Bengal Engineers and was sent to Bencoolen and mainly performed survey work in this area  until 1796. (Note, an unrelated book follows the ''Memoir'')
 
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=eDNcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP1 ''Memoir of Lieut.-Col. John Macdonald''] 1831 Google Books.  He became a cadet of the Bombay Army in 1780, first in the infantry , then the Engineers. In 1782 he joined the Bengal Engineers and was sent to Bencoolen and mainly performed survey work in this area  until 1796. (Note, an unrelated book follows the ''Memoir'')
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*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.501560/2015.501560.Bengal-Past#page/n77/mode/2up "An Eighteenth- Century Subaltern In India"] page 70, ''Bengal, Past and Present, Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society  Volume 44 July-Dec 1932'' Archive.org. Digital Library of India Collection. Lieutenant (afterwards Major-General) John Anthony Hodgson of the Bengal Army arrived in India December 1799. He was subsequently Surveyor-General of India 1821-1829.
 
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6wbmMHtf-FwC&pg=PP11 ‪''Memorials of Service in India‬: ‪from the correspondence of the late Major Samuel Charters Macpherson‬ Political Agent at Gwalior during the Mutiny, and formerly employed in the suppression of human sacrifices in Orissa''] 1865 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/memorialsofservi00macprich Archive.org] (has better maps) He initially joined the Madras Army in 1827. In 1831 he was appointed assistant surveyor-general and was engaged in both military and survey work. In 1841 he was appointed as Assistant to the Agent at Ganjam, Political Agent at Bhopal in 1853, and Political Agent at Gwalior in 1854.
 
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6wbmMHtf-FwC&pg=PP11 ‪''Memorials of Service in India‬: ‪from the correspondence of the late Major Samuel Charters Macpherson‬ Political Agent at Gwalior during the Mutiny, and formerly employed in the suppression of human sacrifices in Orissa''] 1865 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/memorialsofservi00macprich Archive.org] (has better maps) He initially joined the Madras Army in 1827. In 1831 he was appointed assistant surveyor-general and was engaged in both military and survey work. In 1841 he was appointed as Assistant to the Agent at Ganjam, Political Agent at Bhopal in 1853, and Political Agent at Gwalior in 1854.
 
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=tE41AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1  ''A manual of surveying for India, detailing the mode of operations on the revenue surveys in Bengal and the North-western provinces''] by Ralph Smyth and  Henry Edward Landor Thuillier 1851 Google Books
 
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=tE41AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1  ''A manual of surveying for India, detailing the mode of operations on the revenue surveys in Bengal and the North-western provinces''] by Ralph Smyth and  Henry Edward Landor Thuillier 1851 Google Books

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Sources

  • Historical records of the Survey of India (Dehra Dun, 1945-58) by Reginald Henry Phillimore. Comprises 5 volumes. Available on open shelves at British Library shelfmark OIR.354.54. Includes biographical notes of persons involved in the geographical and historical survey of India (the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India) from 1777 to 1843. Also available to read online, refer "Historical books online" below. Volume V, to 1861, may be downloaded as a pdf.

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  • "Colin Mackenzie: Collector Extraordinary" by David M.Blake British Library Journal 1991 pages 128-150. Mackenzie was an officer in the Madras Engineers and had arrived in Madras in 1783. At the time of his death in 1821, he was Surveyor-General of India.
  • "The Trigonometrical Survey" by FC Danvers (a transcript of an article, possibly that in Quarterly Journal of Science VII 1870 pages 448-458) ces.iisc.ernet.in (archive.org link)
  • "The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in a Historical Perspective" by Rana Deb Roy Indian Journal of History of Science 21(1):22-32 (1986)
  • Man who mapped India sits forgotten under tree by M T Saju, June 10, 2013, Times of India. This article is about the bust of William Lambton, who launched his work for the Great Trigonometrical Survey on top of St Thomas Mount. On FIBIS on Facebook, Harshawardhan Bosham Nimkhedkar commented on 10 June 2013: Lambton died in Hinganghat, a small town in (the present-day) Chandrapur district of the western state of Maharashtra (about 100 kilometres from Nagpur). He was travelling up north, doing his survey work but fell ill near Hinganghat and died due dysentery. John Keay in his wonderful book The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India gives the details. Keay also discovered Lambton's crumbling tomb in a Moslem graveyard in Hinganghat and photographed it. Lambton was succeeded by George Everest (pronounced Eve-rest), after whom the world's tallest peak Mount Everest in the Himalayas is named.
  • "Making Mountains out of Molehills? George Everest and Henry Barrow 1830-39" by Jane Insley Indian Journal of History of Science 30 (1) 1995, pages 47-55. Henry Barrow was the first Mathematical Instrument Maker chosen by George Everest to set up and run a workshop for the repair of defective equipment for the Survey of India.
  • Land Surveys Banglapedia (National Encyclopaedia of Bangladesh). It is stated "The objectives of the revenue survey were to make accurate maps of the village boundaries and, sometimes, of the estate boundaries, showing topographical details, compiling certain statistical data for general administrative purposes, and making maps (usual scale: 4 inches = 1 mile and 1 inch = 1 mile) of each village and pargana"
  • A pioneering institution [The Madras Survey School] by S. Muthiah 13 November 2002 The Hindu
  • "Science in British India" by RK Kochhar Indian Journal of History of Science 34(4) 1999 pp317-346. Includes information about Surveys . Page 329 (page 13 of the link) states 'Madras Observatory ran a surveying school from 1794 to 1810 to train teenager European orphaned boys as practical revenue surveyors'.
  • From 1794 the brighter students at the Madras Male Orphanage, usually boys of mixed blood, were recruited to the Survey school.[1]
  • Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich 1843 – 1929 His Life Story, Chapters 1-5 cover his time in India. (click on the drop down menu). He became a Royal Engineer and he was sent to India on attachment to the Survey Department. His first campaign was in Bhutan in 1865. This led to his permanent appointment to the Survey Department. He subsequently served in the 2nd Afghan War. he was appointed as Surveyor to the Historical Boundary Commission which was to settle the boundary between Russia and Afghanistan, and then Chief Commissioner to settle the boundary between Persia and Baluchistan He was involved with the 1898 campaign against the Afridis, but soon had to retire as he had reached the age of 55. The Holdich Family History Society (retrieved 14 April 2014). Thomas Holdich Wikipedia. For online books, refer below.
  • "The Troubled Land: Arunachal Dispute" by Anant Mishra Asia Times 22 February, 2015. Mentions some of the historical Boundary Lines, such as the Johnson Line, the McCartney-MacDonald Line, and the McMahon Line (scroll down).
  • Obituary of Colonel Reginald Henry Phillimore 1879-1964 himalayanclub.org (archive.org link)
  • Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - RICS, with headquarters in London has a Library enquiry service for Family History and will search the archives for a fee, for biographical details of chartered surveyors. For the relevant website page, select Knowledge/Enquires & library/Library services/Library enquiry service.

Historical books online

Volumes I-IV are available to read online on the Digital Library of India website

References

  1. Rootsweb India List post Revenue Surveyor by Shirley West 27 Feb 2011 (retrieved 14 April 2014)
  2. abebooks.co.uk