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Colonial Maps. A New Map of East India, 1676. This is a single plate from John Speed’s 1676 Atlas, A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World. It shows the East Indies, covering India, Burma, Siam, the Malayan Peninsula, Indonesia, and the Philippines. On the back there is a detailed description of India, in English.
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- See a New Map of East Asia by John Speed
Colonial Maps. A New Map of East India, 1676. This is a single plate from John Speed’s 1676 Atlas, A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World. It shows the East Indies, covering India, Burma, Siam, the Malayan Peninsula, Indonesia, and the Philippines. On the back there is a detailed description of India, in English.
This fascinating map embraces all of South Asia and much of East Asia, as it was conceived by Europeans near the beginning of the 16th Century. Most interestingly, India, which is named ‘India Intra Gangem’ (India within the Ganges), appears in its modern form, as a recognizable peninsula, for the first time.
Southeast Asia in a Renaissance map constructed after 's Geography, rediscovered by in c. 1300. Cartography of India as a part of the greater continent of Asia developed in Classical Antiquity. In Greek cartography, India appears as a remote land on the eastern fringe of Asia in the 5th century BCE (Hecataeus of Miletus).
May 3, 2015 · The changing map of India from 1 AD to the 20th century. Battles were fought, territories were drawn and re-drawn. An amateur historian has caught these shifts in a series of maps. India’s ...
Apr 13, 2018 · Van Linschoten’s is only one of the 5,000 old maps Lahoti owns. Others, collected over a period of 15 years, include those dating between 1482 and 1913 and sourced from eight countries. Some of ...
For searching cartographic records as listed below, please visit www.Abhilekh-Patal.in (link is external) or the Cartography section on completion of registration procedures. SI.No. Name of the document and its introduction in one line. 1. Survey of India-Historical Maps (1700-1900) (8.148 maps) -Series contains the maps related to various ...
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