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**[https://archive.org/details/atlasofsouthernp00phar ''An Atlas of the Southern Part of India, including plans of all the principal towns & cantonments, reduced from the grand trigonometrical survey of India, shewing also the Tenasserim Provinces''] 1854. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/atlasofsouthernp00phar#page/n8/mode/1up Contents].  Also available on [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t6b285086?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Hathi Trust Digital Library] where the pages can be rotated, (but the images may be difficult to enlarge).
**[https://archive.org/details/atlasofsouthernp00phar ''An Atlas of the Southern Part of India, including plans of all the principal towns & cantonments, reduced from the grand trigonometrical survey of India, shewing also the Tenasserim Provinces''] 1854. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/atlasofsouthernp00phar#page/n8/mode/1up Contents].  Also available on [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t6b285086?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Hathi Trust Digital Library] where the pages can be rotated, (but the images may be difficult to enlarge).
**[https://archive.org/details/constableshandat00bart/page/n6/mode/1up ''Constable's Hand Atlas of India''] 1893 Archive.org. See below for some of these maps rotated on the website "Historical Maps of India".
**[https://archive.org/details/constableshandat00bart/page/n6/mode/1up ''Constable's Hand Atlas of India''] 1893 Archive.org. See below for some of these maps rotated on the website "Historical Maps of India".
*: There is also a version of this ''Atlas'' on [https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/strx20 David Ramsey Map Collection]
**''Imperial Gazetteer of India'' Maps from the Digital South Asia Library, University of Chicago.
**''Imperial Gazetteer of India'' Maps from the Digital South Asia Library, University of Chicago.
*:*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1909 1909 Maps]
*:*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1909 1909 Maps]
*:*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931 1931 Maps]
*:*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931 1931 Maps]
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/n13/mode/2up List of Maps of Towns and Cities 1911] The maps may then be located within the text of the book  ''A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon'' published by John Murray, London Eighth Edition 1911 Archive.org.  '''Note''': the full map will generally be the second map shown.
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/n13/mode/2up List of Maps of Towns and Cities 1911] The maps may then be located within the text of the book  ''A Handbook for Travellers in India Burma and Ceylon'' published by John Murray, London Eighth Edition 1911 Archive.org.  '''Note''': the full map will generally be the second map shown.
*:[https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28+%22Handbook+for+Travellers+in+India+%22%29&sort=date Other editions of ''A Handbook for Travellers in India''] (Archive.org) from 1891 to 1982, which may similarly be searched for Maps.
**[https://archive.org/details/thackersreduceds00bart/page/n1/mode/2up ''Thacker's Reduced Survey Map of India''] 5th edition 1914, revised to date. With insert plans of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras and [https://archive.org/details/thackersreduceds00bart/page/n3/mode/2up "General Index"]. [https://archive.org/details/thackersreduceds00bart/page/64/mode/1up The Map] which can be increased in size. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.509319/page/n3/mode/2up ''An Historical Atlas of the Indian Peninsula''] by  C. Collin Davies 1949.  Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.   
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.509319/page/n3/mode/2up ''An Historical Atlas of the Indian Peninsula''] by  C. Collin Davies 1949.  Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.   
*[http://sites.rootsweb.com/~poyntz/India/maps.html Historical Maps of India], hosted by Rootsweb, created by Ian Poyntz, has an excellent list of map links and also hosts many historical maps of regions and cities in British India. Includes  
*[http://sites.rootsweb.com/~poyntz/India/maps.html Historical Maps of India], hosted by Rootsweb, created by Ian Poyntz, has an excellent list of map links and also hosts many historical maps of regions and cities in British India. Includes  
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:*[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/pakistan.html Pakistan maps]
:*[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/pakistan.html Pakistan maps]
:*[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/sri_lanka.html Sri Lanka maps].  
:*[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/sri_lanka.html Sri Lanka maps].  
*David Rumsey Map Collection [http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/all/where/South+Asia South Asia] which includes
*[https://www.davidrumsey.com David Rumsey Map Collection]  which includes
:*[http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/all/where/South+Asia/India India],
:*[https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/70p42d South Asia]  
:*[http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/all/where/South+Asia/India/Pakistan Pakistan]
:*[https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/6513jy India],
:*[https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/77mr78 Pakistan]
:These high-resolution historical maps have very good detail when increased in size.
:These high-resolution historical maps have very good detail when increased in size.
*[http://catalogue.nla.gov.au  National Library of Australia] has a collection of Digital maps. From the Search item  “Add limits”, select ‘NLA digitized material’
*[http://catalogue.nla.gov.au  National Library of Australia] has a collection of Digital maps. From the Search item  “Add limits”, select ‘NLA digitized material’

Latest revision as of 11:45, 19 May 2023

Maps on FIBIwiki can be found in the Map Image Category. The FIBIS Search also has a Maps section.

Other sources of maps on the wiki include:

Railway Maps

See also page 'Maps of Indidual Indian Railways

Battle Maps

Sy Morse-Brown has created a number of Battle Maps detailing manoeuvres in wars, campaigns and battles. These can be browsed by campaign in the FIBIS Battle Maps category.

Also see

Place Names in India

Marcus F C Martin, a geographer devised a simple way to understand the old English spellings for Indian places. “For example, FATEHPUR (‘City of Victory’) is a fairly common placename and by the mid-19th century it could be spelled in at least seven ways: FUTTIHPOOR, FUTIHPORE, FUTTAPORE, FUTTEHPOOR, FUTTIPOUR, FUTTYPOOR, FUTTYPORE etc. Marcus saw that the consonants were fairly accurate and could be reduced to a short code: here ‘FTP’ or, if you prefer 4 characters, ‘FTPR’. Then

a.. treat soft ‘c’, ‘ch’ and ‘chh’ as being the same;
b.. treat hard ‘c’, ‘k’ and ‘q’ also as the same; and
c.. treat double consonants as single (‘ck’ as ‘k’, ‘tt’ as ‘t’ etc);
d.. Ignore vowels, except at the beginning of a name, when they should be replaced by a wildcard, such as a dash (-).

Marcus was apparently delighted to find, using this principle, that OOMRAWUTTEE was modern AMRAOTI (both names will code to ‘-MRT’). He published a pamphlet which is long since out of print, with coded tables for the 3,900 Post Offices that existed in India in 1877, when they were renamed in standardised form and continued until independence.

The principle is quite easy to remember and helps enormously when looking up placenames in atlases and gazetteers.”[1]

External links

See further above for Constable's Hand Atlas of India 1893.
  • The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas has digitised many current and historical maps.
These high-resolution historical maps have very good detail when increased in size.
Currently (November 2014) all the maps are from the British Library India Office Records collection.
  • Ceylon maps
See Ceylon
  • Singapore and Southeast Asia. Rare Maps Collection: A digital collection of Singapore and Southeast Asia's print heritage from BookSG, National Library Singapore.

About maps and place names

Same underlying text, but with handwritten alterations, deletions etc, with a link to a pdf download. British Library bl.iro.bl.uk

References

  1. Smith, Max. Place Name Rootsweb India Mailing List 1 December 2013, archived.
  2. Page 178 The General East-India Guide and Vade-mecum ... in British India and the Adjacent Parts of Asia (etc.) by J B Gilchrist 1825 Google Books
  3. The following link is now no longer accessible: ED, in Los Angeles. http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=12780#p68454 National archives of India Victorian Wars Forum 2 January 2019. Includes comments about registering to view digital documents on Abhilekh Patal. Retrieved 3 January 2019.