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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101129164152/http://hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2002/11/13/stories/2002111300060300.htm  A pioneering institution <nowiki>[</nowiki>The Madras Survey School<nowiki>]</nowiki>]  by S. Muthiah 13 November 2002 The Hindu
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101129164152/http://hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2002/11/13/stories/2002111300060300.htm  A pioneering institution <nowiki>[</nowiki>The Madras Survey School<nowiki>]</nowiki>]  by S. Muthiah 13 November 2002 The Hindu
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140125143502/http://www.new1.dli.ernet.in/data1/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005b66_317.pdf "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'.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140125143502/http://www.new1.dli.ernet.in/data1/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005b66_317.pdf "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.<ref> Rootsweb India List post [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-02/1298802118 Revenue Surveyor] by Shirley West 27 Feb 2011 (retrieved 14 April 2014)</ref>
*From 1794 the brighter students at the Madras Male Orphanage, usually boys of mixed blood, were recruited to the Survey school.<ref>West, Shirley. [https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/1316102/ Revenue Surveyor] ''Rootsweb India  Mailing List'' 27 February 2011 (retrieved 5 April 2019).</ref>
*[http://www.holdiches.com/sir-thomas-hungerford-holdich-1843-1929/  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 [[Duar War|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 [[Tirah Campaign|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).  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Holdich Thomas Holdich] Wikipedia. For online books, refer below.
*[http://www.holdiches.com/sir-thomas-hungerford-holdich-1843-1929/  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 [[Duar War|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 [[Tirah Campaign|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).  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Holdich Thomas Holdich] Wikipedia. For online books, refer below.
*[http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pundits-mapping-india-british "The Spies Who Mapped Great Swathes of South Asia by Foot"] by Eleanor Cummins April 17, 2017. atlasobscura.com
*[http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pundits-mapping-india-british "The Spies Who Mapped Great Swathes of South Asia by Foot"] by Eleanor Cummins April 17, 2017. atlasobscura.com
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**[https://archive.org/details/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol4ByPhillimore ''Volume IV 1830 to 1843 George Everest'' [Surveyor General and Superintendent<nowiki>]</nowiki>]  published 1958 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol4ByPhillimore ''Volume IV 1830 to 1843 George Everest'' [Surveyor General and Superintendent<nowiki>]</nowiki>]  published 1958 Archive.org
***[https://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol4ByPhillimore/Historical%20Records%20of%20Survey%20of%20India%20Vol%204%20by%20Phillimore#page/n11/mode/2up Contents], [https://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol4ByPhillimore/Historical%20Records%20of%20Survey%20of%20India%20Vol%204%20by%20Phillimore#page/n463/mode/2up Biographical Notes] page 415, [https://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol4ByPhillimore/Historical%20Records%20of%20Survey%20of%20India%20Vol%204%20by%20Phillimore#page/n529/mode/2up Index] page 477
***[https://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol4ByPhillimore/Historical%20Records%20of%20Survey%20of%20India%20Vol%204%20by%20Phillimore#page/n11/mode/2up Contents], [https://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol4ByPhillimore/Historical%20Records%20of%20Survey%20of%20India%20Vol%204%20by%20Phillimore#page/n463/mode/2up Biographical Notes] page 415, [https://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol4ByPhillimore/Historical%20Records%20of%20Survey%20of%20India%20Vol%204%20by%20Phillimore#page/n529/mode/2up Index] page 477
**''Volume V 1844-1861'', published 1968, (first published 1964)  may be downloaded as a pdf  from [http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/rarebooks/ Digital Himalaya at University of Cambridge, UK],(scroll down) (as may  earlier volumes) (large files up to 47 MB). Volume V was withdrawn by the Indian Government soon after it was published, because of the strategic sensitivity of some of the subject matter.<ref>[http://www.abebooks.co.uk/HISTORICAL-RECORDS-SURVEY-INDIA-Volumes-Phillimore/5703551383/bd abebooks.co.uk]</ref> so it is not widely available.
**''Volume V 1844-1861'', published 1968, (first published 1964)  may be downloaded as a pdf  from [http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/rarebooks/ Digital Himalaya at University of Cambridge, UK],(scroll down) (as may  earlier volumes) (large files up to 47 MB). Volume V was withdrawn by the Indian Government soon after it was published, because of political reasons<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141130063031/http://www.abebooks.co.uk/HISTORICAL-RECORDS-SURVEY-INDIA-Volumes-Phillimore/5703551383/bd abebooks.co.uk, now an archived webpage.]</ref> [strategic sensitivity of some of the subject matter], so it is not widely available.
:Volumes I-IV are available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website
*[https://archive.org/details/GeographicalSurveyingInIndia  "Geographical Surveying In India"] by Colonel Sir T H Holdich 1898  Paper XI,'' Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Occassional Papers Volume XX˜IV 1898''  pages  289-305 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/GeographicalSurveyingInIndia  "Geographical Surveying In India"] by Colonel Sir T H Holdich 1898  Paper XI,'' Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Occassional Papers Volume XX˜IV 1898''  pages  289-305 Archive.org
*''The Indian Borderland, 1880-1900'' by Colonel  Sir T  Hungerford  Holdich [https://archive.org/details/indianborderlan00holdgoog 1901 edition], [https://archive.org/details/indianborderland00holduoft Second and cheaper edition 1909]  Archive.org
*''The Indian Borderland, 1880-1900'' by Colonel  Sir T  Hungerford  Holdich [https://archive.org/details/indianborderlan00holdgoog 1901 edition], [https://archive.org/details/indianborderland00holduoft Second and cheaper edition 1909]  Archive.org

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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.

Also see

External links

  • "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.
"Spies or Pandits? Colin Mackenzie’s Indian Assistants, 1788 to 1821" 29 September 2017 British Library Untold lives blog.
  • "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 Spies Who Mapped Great Swathes of South Asia by Foot" by Eleanor Cummins April 17, 2017. atlasobscura.com
  • "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. Previously the website advised there was a Library enquiry service for Family History which would search the archives for a fee, for biographical details of chartered surveyors. (Previously, for the relevant website page, select Knowledge/Enquires & library/Library services/Library enquiry service). However at 2017/4, this information no longer seems to appear on the website.

Historical books online

References

  1. West, Shirley. Revenue Surveyor Rootsweb India Mailing List 27 February 2011 (retrieved 5 April 2019).
  2. abebooks.co.uk, now an archived webpage.