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*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_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.wdl.org/en/search/gallery?ql=eng&r=CentralSouthAsia&tc=912 Maps of Central and South Asia] World Digital Library includes
:*[http://www.wdl.org/en/item/388/?ql=eng&r=CentralSouthAsia&tc=912&view_type=gallery 1903 Map of India]. Easy to enlarge
*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/maps/asia/ Maps of Asia] British Library’s Online Gallery
*[http://www.loc.gov/maps/ Library of Congress Maps Search]. Includes
**[http://www.loc.gov/item/2013593205/ The East Indies with the roads 1768] The word ‘roads’ probably has the nautical meaning of ‘partly sheltered anchorages’
**[http://www.loc.gov/item/2010586015/ Atlas of India: South] published 1862. 42 images. Maps are dated from 1827 to 1862. [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g7650m.gct00196 Alternative format] where the index page may be easier to view.
**[https://www.loc.gov/item/map56000567/ Collection of 314 maps of sections of India] c 1960. Click on “View 316 images in sequence”.
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en Qatar Digital Library] has maps of Persia including
**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022744604.0x0000b6 1928 Map of Persia and Afghanistan].
:Currently (November 2014) all the maps are from the British Library India Office Records collection.
*[http://vc.lib.harvard.edu/vc/deliver/advancedsearch?_collection=maps Harvard Map Collection: Digital Maps: Search]
*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/index.html Maps of South Asia] from the [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/#fwp website] of Prof. Frances Pritchett, Columbia University
*[http://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/ Abhilekh Patal] hosts the digital collection of the National Archives of India. Includes a collection of digitised [http://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/simple-search?location=&query=&sort_by=dc.date.accessioned_dt&order=desc&rpp=20&etal=0&filtername=subjectCollection&filtertype=equals&filterquery=Digitized%20Cartographic%20Records Cartographic Records], including "Historical, Forest and Revenue Maps of the Survey of India". Registration is required to view the documents. '''Note''', a researcher has had issues with this website and although certain the website is legitimate, suspects a hacker may have been involved.<ref> 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.</ref>
:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131117013846/http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/photolib/maps/Map_of_India_(Railways)_1920.htm Map of India (Railways) 1920] Probert Encyclopaedia, now an archived webpage.:*1931 Railway maps from ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'' from the Digital South Asia Library,University of Chicago.:**[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931/fullscreen.php?object=30 General Railway Map]:**[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931/fullscreen.php?object=31 Section 1 [N/W<nowiki>]</nowiki>]:**[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931/fullscreen.php?object=32 Section 2 [N/E<nowiki>]</nowiki>]:**[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931/fullscreen.php?object=33 Section 3 [S<nowiki>]</nowiki>]*Military maps'''
Maps
,→External links
*[[Calcutta#Maps|Calcutta Maps]]
==Railway Maps==See also page [https://wiki.fibis.org/w/Category:Railway_maps 'Maps of Indidual Indian Railways]:*'''1871 Railway Map''' [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Old_maps_of_the_Indian_Subcontinent#/media/File:IndianRailways1871b.jpg - 'Map of Indian Railways in 1871 by the British Government India Office for the House of Commons Committee', includes Burma] from "Wikimedia".:*'''1882 Railway Map''' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130124084136/http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/genealogy/dibblee/india.htm - '1882 Railway map of India'] from the Archive.org website “Frederick Lewis Dibblee”. :*'''1893 Railway Maps''' - 'Constable's Hand Atlas of India’, 1893:**[https://archive.org/stream/constableshandat00bart#page/n84/mode/1up ‘General Railway Map of India’, 1893 - original version] from Archive.org.:**[https://web.archive.org/web/20121028191856/http://irfca.org/faq/map/1893rly.jpg 'General Railway Map of India', 1893 - rotated version] from Irfca.org.:**[https://archive.org/stream/constableshandat00bart#page/n88/mode/1up ‘Section 1 Railways, Telegraphs and Navigable Canals’ North East India, 1893] from Archive.org:**[https://archive.org/stream/constableshandat00bart#page/n92/mode/1up ‘Section 2 Railways, Telegraphs and Navigable Canals’ North West India, 1893] from Archive.org:**[https://archive.org/stream/constableshandat00bart#page/n96/mode/1up ‘Section 3 Railways, Telegraphs and Navigable Canals’ South India, 1893] from Archive.org:*'''1909 Railway Maps''' - ‘Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1909’ from Digital South Asia Library, University of Chicago.:**[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1909/fullscreen.html?object=28 ‘General Map of Railways, 1909] :**[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1909/fullscreen.html?object=29 ‘Section 1 Railways and Inland Navigation’ North West India, 1909]:**[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1909/fullscreen.html?object=30 ‘Section 2 Railways and Inland Navigation’ North East India, 1909]:**[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1909/fullscreen.html?object=30 ‘Section 3 Railways and Inland Navigation’ South India, 1909]:*'''1919 Railway Map''' [http://purl.umn.edu/200755 1919 - 'Survey of India map of India showing railways, 1919]. University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia:*'''1920 Railway Map''' [https://web.archive.org/web/20131117013846/http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/photolib/maps/Map_of_India_(Railways)_1920.htm - 'Map of India (Railways), 1920] from Probert Encyclopaedia, now an archived webpage.:*'''1931 Railway Maps''' 'Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1931’ from the Digital South Asia Library,University of Chicago.:**[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931/fullscreen.php?object=30 ‘General Map of Railways, 1931]:**[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931/fullscreen.php?object=31 ‘Section 1 Railways and Inland Navigation’ North West India, 1931]:**[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931/fullscreen.php?object=32 ‘Section 2 Railways and Inland Navigation’ North East India, 1931]:**[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931/fullscreen.php?object=33 ‘Section 3 Railways and Inland Navigation’ South India, 1931] ==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 [[:Category:Campaigns with FIBIS Battle Maps|FIBIS Battle Maps]] category.
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.”<ref>Smith, Max . [httphttps://archiverweb.rootswebarchive.ancestry.comorg/web/20201106122156/thhttps:/read/INDIAmlarchives.rootsweb.com/2013-12listindexes/1385892683 emails?listname=india&thread=520643 Place Name] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 1 December 2013, archived. Retrieved 7 November 2014</ref>
==External links==
*Maps from publications
**[http://purl.umn.edu/155721 ''Atlas of South India : in eighteen sheets, from Cape Comorin to the River Kistnah''. 1822] by A Arrowsmith. University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
**[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".
**''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_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.
**[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#area Constable's 1893 Area Maps] together with [http://sites.rootsweb.com/~poyntz/India/maps.html#index '''Index of place names''' for Constable's 1893 Area Maps]
::[https://archive.org/details/constableshandat00bart/page/n6/mode/1up See further above for ''Constable's Hand Atlas of India''] 1893 Archive.org. *[http://purl.umn.edu/155721 ''Atlas of South India : in eighteen sheets, from Cape Comorin to the River Kistnah''. 1822] by A Arrowsmith. University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.*[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).
*The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas has digitised many current and historical maps.
:*[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/asia.html Asia maps]
:*[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/pakistan.html Pakistan 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
:*[http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/all/where/South+Asia/India India],
:*[http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/all/where/South+Asia/India/Pakistan Pakistan]
: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’
**Maps from ''The Colonial Church Atlas 3rd Edition 1850''
**[http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-ra317 1894 Atlas of India: containing sixteen maps & complete index] with an introduction by Sir W.W. Hunter. Edinburgh ; London : W. & A. K. Johnston, 1894. Maps commence Part 49, Index commences Part 79. [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn4971585 Catalogue entry]
**[http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm2070 1900 Map: Routes to India] [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3385628 Catalogue entry]
*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/maps/asia/ Maps of Asia] British Library’s Online Gallery
*[http://www.loc.gov/maps/ Library of Congress Maps Search]. Includes
**[http://www.loc.gov/item/2013593205/ The East Indies with the roads 1768] The word ‘roads’ probably has the nautical meaning of ‘partly sheltered anchorages’
**[http://www.loc.gov/item/2010586015/ Atlas of India: South] published 1862. 42 images. Maps are dated from 1827 to 1862. [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g7650m.gct00196 Alternative format] where the index page may be easier to view.
**[https://www.loc.gov/item/map56000567/ Collection of 314 maps of sections of India] c 1960. Click on “View 316 images in sequence”.
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek] contains some digital maps, including [[Calcutta#Maps|Calcutta maps]] . Search using term map or karte.
*Post routes maps Gallica: Bibliothèque Nationale de France (click multiple times to enlarge)
**[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b530228569/f1.item Map of the Post Office Stations, Post and Bangy Routes throughout British India] 1838. Description of a bangy<ref>
[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=IYBXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA178#v=onepage&q=bangy%20&f=false 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 </ref>.
**[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53063729m/f1.item India shewing the Post Roads and Dawk Stations] by James Wyld 1860
*Railway maps :*Two orientations of the same 1871 map, [httpshttp://commonsvc.wikimedialib.orgharvard.edu/vc/wikideliver/Categoryadvancedsearch?_collection=maps Harvard Map Collection:Old_maps_of_the_Indian_Subcontinent#/media/FileDigital Maps:IndianRailways1871b.jpg ASearch] and *[https://commonsmaps.wikimedianls.orguk/wikiindia/Category:Old_maps_of_the_Indian_Subcontinent#survey-of-india/media/File:IndiaRailwaysCompletedBy1871.jpg BSurvey of India Maps for Southern India], the latter map includes Burma. Wikimedia National Library of Scotland.:*[https://web.archivezenodo.org/webcommunities/20130124084136/httpold-survey-of-india-maps?page=1&size=20 Old Survey of India Maps] Curated by://gwydirMapman.demonzenodo.coorg.ukIncludes**[https:/jo/genealogyzenodo.org/dibbleerecord/india3594450 Maps of Burma].htm 1882 Railway map "A set of about 250 maps of India] from the website “Frederick Lewis Dibblee”Burma". :*[httpshttp://webwww.archiveabhilekh-patal.orgin/web/20121028191856jspui/Abhilekh Patal] hosts the digital collection of the National Archives of India. Includes a collection of digitised [http://irfcawww.orgabhilekh-patal.in/faqjspui/map/1893rlysimple-search?location=&query=&sort_by=dc.date.jpg 1893 Railway map accessioned_dt&order=desc&rpp=20&etal=0&filtername=subjectCollection&filtertype=equals&filterquery=Digitized%20Cartographic%20Records Cartographic Records], including "Historical, Forest and Revenue Maps of the Survey of India] Irfca".orgRegistration is required to view the documents. This appears to be from ''Constable's Hand Atlas of IndiaNote''', a researcher has had issues with this website and although certain the website is legitimate, suspects a hacker may have been involved.<ref>The following link is now no longer accessible:**[httpsED, in Los Angeles. <nowiki>http://archivewww.victorianwars.orgcom/stream/constableshandat00bartviewtopic.php?f=82&t=12780#page/n92/mode/1up Section 2 [N/E<nowiki>]p68454</nowiki>] National archives of India ''ConstableVictorian Wars Forum's Hand Atlas of India'' Archive 2 January 2019. Includes comments about registering to view digital documents on Abhilekh Patal. Retrieved 3 January 2019.org</ref>*[http:*1909 Railway //pahar.in/category/maps / Maps] from ''Imperial Gazetteer PAHAR-Mountains of India'' Central Asia Digital Dataset. Also accessible from the Digital South Asia Librarydrop down menu at the top of the webpage. Includes a category Survey of India Report Maps and a separate category Afghanistan,University which in turn has British Maps which appear to be Survey of ChicagoIndia maps.:**[http://dsalwww.uchicagocolumbia.edu/referenceitc/mealac/gaz_atlas_1909pritchett/fullscreen00maplinks/index.html?object=28 1909 General Map Maps of RailwaysSouth Asia] :**from the [http://dsalwww.uchicagocolumbia.edu/referenceitc/gaz_atlas_1909mealac/fullscreenpritchett/00fwp/#fwp website] of Prof.html?object=29 Section 1 Frances Pritchett, Columbia University*[Nhttp://W<nowiki>]<www.qdl.qa/nowiki>en Qatar Digital Library]has maps of Persia including :**[http://dsalwww.uchicagoqdl.eduqa/en/referencearchive/gaz_atlas_190981055/fullscreenvdc_100022744604.html?object=30 Section 2 [N/E<nowiki>]</nowiki>0x0000b6 1928 Map of Persia and Afghanistan]. :*Currently (November 2014) all the maps are from the British Library India Office Records collection.*[http://dsalwww.uchicagowdl.eduorg/referenceen/gaz_atlas_1909search/fullscreen.htmlgallery?objectql=eng&r=30 Section 3 [S<nowiki>]</nowiki>CentralSouthAsia&tc=912 Maps of Central and South Asia]World Digital Library includes:*[http://purlwww.umnwdl.eduorg/en/item/388/200755 1919 ?ql=eng&r=CentralSouthAsia&tc=912&view_type=gallery Survey of India map 1903 Map of India showing railways]. University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South AsiaEasy to enlarge
**[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/n8/mode/1up Map of Military Stations in India c 1864] from ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/constableshandat00bart#page/n80/mode/1up Military Map of the Indian Empire 1893] ''Constable's Hand Atlas of India'' Archive.org
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20131117011832/http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/photolib/maps/Map_of_Indian_Empire_(Northern_Section)_1936.htm Map of Indian Empire (Northern Section) 1936], [https://web.archive.org/web/20131117012059/http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/photolib/maps/Map_of_Indian_Empire_(Southern_Section)_1936.htm Map of Indian Empire (Southern Section) 1936], [https://web.archive.org/web/20131117012236/http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/photolib/maps/Map_of_Indian_Empire_(Eastern_Section)_1936.htm Map of Indian Empire (Eastern Section) 1936] Includes Burma. (archived webpages)
*'''Burma maps'''
**[https://archive.org/stream/inlandwatertrans00rang#page/n82/mode/1up 1952 Map of the Irrawaddy River] facing page 43 with [https://archive.org/stream/inlandwatertrans00rang#page/45/mode/2up "Alphabetical List of Stations"], page 45 ''Inland Water Transport Board (Irrawaddy Section)'', published July 1952 or later. Archive.org
*'''Ceylon maps'''
:See [[Ceylon]]
===About maps and place names===
*[http://gyaninformationpedia.blogspot.com/2015/10/indian-sheet-numbering.html "Indian Sheet numbering"] for Survey of India maps. gyaninformationpedia.
*[http://www.scribd.com/doc/74258272/1945-Special-Series-No-31-Guide-to-Maps-of-the-Far-East ''(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.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3P0eJ-Onwk "Understanding Maps for Genealogists"] "Finding Obscure and Elusive Geographic Information on the Web" by James Tanner. Webinar by BYU Family History Library published May 2, 2016 YouTube.
