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The East India Company officers lived lavish lives, the company finances were in shambles, and the company's effectiveness in India was examined by the British crown after 1858. As a result, the East India Company lost its powers of government and British India formally came under direct Crown control, with an appointed Governor-General of ...
The research behind this map, in addition to its mathematical nature, made it a standard for maps to come. It had a large impact when it was published, underscoring the French strength in New France in the early 18th century, and it stood out as an early example of a more dispassionate, scientific type of map relative to the impressionistic ...
Thomas Jefferys (c. 1719 – 1771), "Geographer to King George III", was an English cartographer who was the leading map supplier of his day. [1] He engraved and printed maps for government and other official bodies and produced a wide range of commercial maps and atlases, especially of North America. [2]
The Imperial Gazetteer of India (26 vol, 1908–31), highly detailed description of all of India in 1901. online edition; Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. II (1908), The Indian Empire, Historical, Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council, Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Pp. xxxv, 1 map, 573
[13] [14] It was a convenient term to refer to the region comprising both British India and the princely states. [15] [16] The term has been particularly common in the British Empire and its successors, [17] while the term South Asia is the more common usage in Europe, North America as well as in most country's in South Asia it self some times.
India's largest-ever rural jobs scheme is launched, aimed at lifting around 60 million families out of poverty. March: US and India sign a nuclear agreement during a visit by US President George W. Bush. The US gives India access to civilian nuclear technology while India agrees to greater scrutiny for its nuclear programme. 2007: February
Joseph E. Schwartzberg (2008) proposes that the Bronze Age [[Indus Valley Civilization]] (c. 2500–1900 BCE) may have known "cartographic activity" based on a number of excavated surveying instruments and measuring rods and that the use of large scale constructional plans, cosmological drawings, and cartographic material was known in India with some regularity since the Vedic period (1st ...
English: Political map of India in 1751, at the height of French influence in India. Map from the Historical Atlas of India , by Charles Joppen (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1907) Français : Carte politique de l'Inde en 1751, année où sous l'impulsion de Dupleix, gouverneur de l'Inde française, l'influence française atteignait son ...