Ebook – Making history, drawing territory: British mapping in India, c. 1756-1905 2nd impression. Edition (PDF Instant Download)

A unique study of British possession and territorial legitimacy in India as represented by colonial maps, this book focuses on various strategies used by map-makers and surveyors to embed a past into their narratives, and concludes that maps were used both to demonstrate a history of territoryand, importantly, to justify the possession of land in colonial times in the Indian subcontinent.