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*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/rawdataupload/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005abc_47.pdf "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.
*[http://www.banglapedia.org/httpdocs/HT/L_0053.HTM 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 [http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:wY04OFGLYWUJ:www.new.dli.ernet.in/rawdataupload/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005b66_317.pdf+Science+in+%22British+India%22&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgniwZQ9F5fkYnPJsb8-jftV0U23uCpu9sna-ItH20a319oZSJypsk4xOg7SSAaX3Kz3jPeEyQpSMGUaYTYgZdiLxcbZVkP88-1q2DLnKQqAEG8YhKqXsf4eG834yglY9tFK7Yc&sig=AHIEtbTyaXkzEc8uK-F_M8gtYcePXCA_Sw html version], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/rawdataupload/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005b66_317.pdf 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 [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-02/1298802118 post] is about the training of boys from the Madras Male Orphanage in the Survey school from 1794.
*[http://www.annapizzey.ic24.net/blyth%20data/d62.htm William Edward Blyth] born c 1818 had a career in Revenue Survey in the [[Indian Civil Service#Records|uncovenanted civil service]] Blyth Family History site.
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