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Please post historical maps of India and Indian provices/kingdoms.





British India:

Hindostan or British India (New York: G. W. and C. B. Colton and Company, 1855).









[url="http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/echoes/introduction/chapter0_1.html"]link[/url]

1942 Map of British India

1785:









1787:







1804:







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1810:







1824:











Source

This one is in Russian, refering to buddhism. Guess that is the route taken by some buddhist piligrim. No idea how old this map is.

1937: Presidencies

1914: British and Central Asia

1500AD: World Civilizations Map

1944: WWII Allied operations in India

India - Calcutta

Battle Plan for the Intelligence of the Military Operations at Calcutta When Attacked and Taken By Seerajah Dowlett

Engraving dated C. 1760.

1930:

1931: Muslim demograpics in India

Very interesting. Good going shashi. i have a few of these in my hard disk, but this is a more comprehensive collection

Any maps of to show the influence of those chola kings whose reign and infulence extended eastwards?

BTW, great collection Shashi.



Anyone with latest numbers/maps on Muslim demograpics in India? I read somewhere that Laskhadweep Islands is 99% muslim? True/False?

[url="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCINDIA/GUPTAMAP.HTM"]Gupta Empire 400 AD[/url]

[url="http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/map06ind.htm"]India 500 BCE[/url]

[url="http://www.harappa.com/har/gif/harmap2.jpg"]Harappa[/url]

[url="http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/map14ind.htm"]Asoka's empire[/url]

[url="http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/map09-in.htm"]India in 700s[/url]

[url="http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/map23-in.html"]Mughal Empire[/url]

[url="http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/images/riv-vall.gif"]Four Old-World River Valley Cultures[/url]

I didn't know where to post this nice image of Adams Bridge/Rameshawaram setu taken by the Indian satellite resourcesat. I remember at BR we had a long discussion based on a similar image from NASA
Setu Bandh/ Adams Bridge

Another image of Rameshawaram Setu at higher res

Setu2

Amazing hexagonal symmery of Delhi can be clearly seen in this satellite image. Unfortunately such nice symmetry makes an enemy missile's job easier due to ease of pattern matching. DC and especially Pentagon have also very symmetrical structures.

Symmetrical Delhi

A beautiful satellite image of Manasarovar and Rakastaal. I liked the caption "Manasarovar, INDIA" for the following image <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> , even though it is in China/Tibet at the moment.

Manasarovar