Bengal and the upper provinces -- The mountain provinces -- North-east frontier -- Burma -- Central Indian plateau -- Madras surveys -- South peninsula and Nizam's dominons -- Bombay surveys -- Revenue surveys: Lower Bengal -- Revenue surveys: upper provinces of Bengal -- Revenue surveys: Madras and Bombay -- Astronomical control -- Professional details -- Instruments -- Great trigonometrical survey 1815-23 -- Great trigonometrical survey under Everest -- Calcutta longitudinal series and other tasks -- Maps and map making -- Administration -- Office establishments -- Surveyors -- Pay and allowances -- Civil assistants, Bengal -- Civil assistants, Madras and Bombay -- Indian survey personnel -- People and country of India

Third volume in this definitive history of the survey of India covering the period during which there was a single department under the Surveyor General for the first time. It records the apprenticeship of George Everest under Lambton, Mackenzie, Hodgson and Blacker. Includes details of other surveys undertaken during this period. Includes maps and references to source material.