Historical records of the survey of India volume two 1800 to 1815
Language: English Series: Historical Records of the Survey of India ; 2Publication details: Dehra Dun Surveyor General of India 1950Description: xxviii, 478p. ill. 30cmSubject(s):Bengal and Orissa
Upper provinces and Oudh
South-western marches
North-west frontier
Himalaya mountains
Survey of Mysore 1800-5
Mysore and Kanara
Madras military surveys
Carnatic districts
Other Madras surveys
Bombay and Persia
Revenue surveys
Astronomical control
Professional methods of survey
Instruments
Lambton's trigonometrical survey
Lambton's professional details
Maps
Administration
Surveyors
Allowances and expenditure
Civil assistants
People and country of India
Second volume in this definitive history of the survey of India covering the period during which large parts of modern India were explored and surveyed by the East India Company for the first time. Describes Lambton and Mackenzie's efforts to ensure that surveys were carried out to the highest scientific standards and on a logical province by province basis. Includes maps and references to source material.