Maps

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

Other sources of maps on the wiki include:

• Calcutta Maps

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.

External links

• The Roots India mailing list site, 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
  • Constable's 1893 Area Maps together with Index of place names for Constable's 1893 Area Maps
• The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas has digitised many current and historical maps.

• Asia maps
• Bangladesh maps
• Burma maps
• India maps
• Pakistan maps
• Sri Lanka maps

• Imperial Gazetteer of India Maps from the Digital South Asia Library,University of Chicago.

• 1909 Maps
• 1931 Maps

• David Rumsey Map Collection South Asia which includes

• India,
• Pakistan

These high-resolution historical maps have very good detail when increased in size.

• Maps of Central and South Asia World Digital Library includes

• 1903 Map of India. Easy to enlarge

• Maps of South Asia from the website of Prof. Frances Pritchett, Columbia University

• Railway maps

• Railway map of India 1882 from the website “Frederick Lewis Dibblee”.
• Railway map of India 1893 Irfca.org
• Railway map of India 1909 from the website “Frederick Lewis Dibblee”. This is a clear large scale map.

• Military maps

• Map: Railways and Cantonments 1928 produced by General Staff India. retronaut.com . Double click on the body of the map for an enlarged image, or click here. It may be necessary to do this at least twice, from the smaller image. May also be acessed through the same map, but smaller scale, on pinterest.com, by clicking through to first link, and then double clicking for enlarged version.

• Probert Encyclopaedia :The Internet Map Archive These are low resolution maps but may be useful for an overview
  • Map of Indian Empire (Northern Section) 1936, Map of Indian Empire (Southern Section) 1936, Map of Indian Empire (Eastern Section) 1936 Includes Burma.

About maps

• (1945) Special Series No. 31 - Guide to Maps of the Far East published by Military Intelligence Division, War Department, Washington DC. June 1, 1945 report providing instruction on how to use maps not issued by U.S. military forces.
• Finding the Obscure and the Elusive: Geographic Information On the Web A presentation by James L. Tanner at Rootstech 2013