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Thanks for the confirmation. I owe a little more
information. We are the archives of the pre-1947
British Department of State responsible for the
administration of India. Not the National Archives of
India, but the superintending authority in London. We
ought to be the best source of information outside
India on what the Survey of India did or did not
publish, and we have been trying to improve our
knowledge through contacts with British military survey
archives.
So far as we are aware, none of 39G/1-16 was published
before the cessation of civil map publication in 1941.
39F/1-16, 39J/1-16, 39K/1-16, 39L/1,2,5,6 and 39H/13,14
all were published. Wartime military effort in India
concentrated elsewhere, though I believe 39H/3 appeared
as an isolated sheet.
The predecessor series, the Punjab One-inch of the
1880s (dating from before NWFP) allocated quad numbers
to DGK district, but did not complete the coverage to
this area before the series was terminated c.1910.
Survey of Pakistan printed 1:63.360/1:50,000 mapping of
39G/1-16 by 1983, but the whole area lies within the
Pakistan 'Restricted - Maps not for publication' border
belt.
Hence the cautious negative of my previous posting.
Thanks for asking: it's good to be made to check the
coverage of these border areas.
Andrew Cook
Dr A S Cook
Map Archivist
India Office Records
The British Library
197 Blackfriars Road E-mail: [log in to unmask]
London SE1 8NG Phone: +44 171 412 7828
United Kingdom Fax: +44 171 412 7858
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Subject: Re: Survey of India maps
Author: william j thornton <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
Date: 28/05/96 08:52
No, I have no indication that there sheets exist other than the index.
Just a fishing expedition.