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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 below. Volume V, to 1861, may be downloaded as a pdf.
==External links==
*[http://www.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/sahyadri/wgbis_info/trigonometrical_survey.htm "The Trigonometrical Survey"] by FC Danvers (a transcript of an article, possibly that in ''Quarterly Journal of Science VII 1870'' pages 448-458)
*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.
*[http://www.himalayanclub.org/journal/obituary-5/ Obituary of Colonel Reginald Henry Phillimore 1879-1964] himalayanclub.org
===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=tE41AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 ''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
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/waysandworksini02macggoog#page/n34/mode/2up "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
*''Records of the Survey Of India Volume XVII'' [http://archive.org/stream/1923MemoirOnMapsOfChineseTurkistanBySteinS/1923%20Memoir%20on%20Maps%20of%20Chinese%20Turkistan%20by%20Stein%20s#page/n1/mode/2up ''Memoir On Maps Of Chinese Turkistan and Kensu from the Surveys made during Sir Aurel Stein’s Explorations 1900-1, 1906-8, 1913-1915''] by Aurel Stein, Indian Archaelogical Survey 1923 (Trigonometrical Survey Office, Dehra Dun) [http://archive.org/stream/1923MemoirOnMapsOfChineseTurkistanBySteinS/1923%20Memoir%20on%20Maps%20of%20Chinese%20Turkistan%20by%20Stein%20s#page/n223/mode/2up Photographs], following page 208. Note this book/file does not contain any maps. Archive.org
*''Historical Records of the Survey of India by Colonel'' R H Phillimore (late Royal Engineers and Survey of India) . Read online or download as pdfs Archive.ogorg
**[http://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol1-3/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVolI#page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume I 18th Century''] published 1945
***[http://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol1-3/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVolI#page/n17/mode/2up Contents], [http://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol1-3/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVolI#page/n351/mode/2up Biographical Notes] page 308, [http://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol1-3/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVolI#page/n447/mode/2up Index], [http://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol1-3/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVolIi#page/n9/mode/2up Additional Volume I corrections] (from Volume II), [http://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol1-3/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVolI-Maps#page/n0/mode/2up Some of the maps] from Volume I
**[http://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol1-3/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVolIii#page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume III 1815-1830''] published 1954
***[http://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol1-3/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVolIii#page/n15/mode/2up Contents], [http://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol1-3/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVolIii#page/n425/mode/2up Nominal Roll, Civil Assistants Bengal], page 370, [http://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol1-3/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVolIii#page/n439/mode/2up Nominal Roll, Civil Assistants Madras and Bombay] page 384, [http://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol1-3/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVolIii#page/n479/mode/2up Biographical Notes] page 422, [http://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol1-3/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVolIii#page/n579/mode/2up Index], page 517
**''Volume IV 1830-1843'' , published 1958 is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, (as are Volumes I-III).**''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 Yale], as may Volume IV (and earlier volumes) (large files up to 47 MB). Volume V was withdrawn by the Indian Government because of the strategic sensitivity of some of the subject matter. ([http://sogdianabooks.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=376 sogdianabooks.com] and [http://www.abebooks.co.uk/HISTORICAL-RECORDS-SURVEY-INDIA-Volumes-Phillimore/5703551383/bd abebooks.co.uk])
