Surveyor

Sources

• Historical records of the Survey of India (Dehra Dun, 1945-48) 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.

External links

• "The Trigonometrical Survey" by FC Danvers (a transcript of an article, possibly that in Quarterly Journal of Science VII 1870 pages 448-458)
• "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)
• "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"
• "Science in British India" by RK Kochhar Indian Journal of History of Science 34(4) 1999 pp317-346 html version, original pdf 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'.
• This India List post is about the training of boys from the Madras Male Orphanage in the Survey school from 1794.
• William Edward Blyth born c 1818 had a career in Revenue Survey in the uncovenanted civil service Blyth Family History site.

Historical books online

• 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
• A Memoir On The Indian Surveys by Clements R Markham Archive.org First Edition 1871, 2nd Edition 1878
• "Great Indian Trigonometrical Survey" from Ways and works in India being an account of the public works in that country from the earliest times up to the present day by G. W. Macgeorge 1894 Archive.org