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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://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/list/readindia@rootsweb.com/INDIAthread/2013-12520643/1385892683 Place Name] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 1 December 2013. Retrieved 7 November 201411 September 2018.</ref> ==Note=='''Please note that, for the links given below, the Digital Library of India is not currently operating'''.
==Imperial Gazetteer of India==
