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Districts Nagpoor and Wurdah

Alternative Title:

Central Provinces Revenue Survey

Description:

Under the direction of Lieutt. Coll. H.L. Thuillier, Surveyor General of India, surveyed by Captains D.C. Vanrenen & J.H. Grant, and Lieutt. R.E. Oakes, Rev: surveyors and assistant. Compiled by Mr. E.T.S. Johnson Asst. Revenue Surveyor ; Drawn and written by Joynarain Biswas, Revenue Surveyor General's Office, Febry. 1863 ; Lith: by H.M. Smith, Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, Decr. 1864 ; On transfer paper by Bolloram Nath, Muneerooddeen, Mohumed Azeem, & Sobhan Buksh.

Coordinates approximate and based on Greenwich meridian

Relief shown by hachures

Legend shows towns, villages, "deserted," temples, forts, "dak bungalows," high roads, foot paths, telegraph posts, date trees, grass jungles, forest do., cultivation, hills, rivers, ravines, "nullahs," jheels and tanks, principal and secondary trigonometrical stations

Tables include "Statement of Original Purgunnah Areas" and "Area Statement," with area statistics, names of Purgunnahs, number of villages within each Purgunnah, and Tuhseels within the two districts

Sheet of the Revenue Survey of India

"Note. The names printed across the map appertain to the Purgunnah sub-divisions as they existed at the time of the Survey. The new Tuhseels divisions are represented by a narrow beading of color, and numbers. November 1864"

Signature of Surveyor General of India underneath scale

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/rh210kd3979

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/rh210kd3979 and 556715269

Language:

eng

Creator:

Great Britain, India Office., Surveyor General's Office. and Thuillier, H. L. (Henry Edward Landor), 1813-1906

Publisher:

Surveyor General's Office,

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Digital maps

Subject:

19th century and Maps

Date Issued:

1864

Spatial Coverage:

India--Nāgpur (District), India--Wardha (District), Nāgpur (India : District), Wardha (India : District), Central Provinces (India), and NÁGPUR, Central Provinces (District)

Rights:

Image from the Map Collections courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections at brannerlibrary@stanford.edu.

Rights Holder:

This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

Georeferenced:

false