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24 hours have elapsed since I posted this to Maps-L,
without its echoing back to me as a subscriber on the
list. So I am trying again.
Andrew Cook
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Subject: Re: India 1:50,000
Author: Andrew Cook at BL-Orbit_House
Date: 03/04/95 08:39
The Government of India has since 1950 restricted to
their official use all topographical maps at scales
larger than 1:500,000 of coastal and border areas.
1:250,000 sheets 47A. 47B, 47E and 47F (and their
constituent 1:50,000 sheets) all lie in this restricted
coastal strip, which is marked as such in current
Survey of India map sales list diagrams. The
experience of researchers with whom I've discussed the
problem is that the only legitimate route to such map
sheets is through co-operative research with an
official Government of India agency, and even then all
map sheets and copies are required to be returned for
destruction before the researcher(s) leave India. This
is why GeoCenter etc can supply topo maps only of an
apparently arbitrary central area of India (see their
catalogs).
I hardly need add that I would dearly like to be
reliably contradicted on anything I have reported here.
The consequence of the restriction is that pre-1950
Survey of India topo sheets continue to have a
relevance to modern research. We have been
deliberately firming up, by continuing acquisition of
archive material, the pre-1947 UK Government India
Office archive collection of this mapping. (The India
Office functioned before 1939 as the official sales
agency, outside India, of Survey of India published
mapping.)
We'd be glad to try to help you or your patron further.
Andrew Cook
Dr Andrew S Cook, Map Archivist, India Office Records,
The British Library, 197 Blackfriars Road, London SE1
8NG, England.
Fax: +44 171 412 7858
Phone: +44 171 412 7828
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Poster: Marsha L Selmer <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: India 1:50,000
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One of our patrons is seeking 1:50,000 scale
topographic maps of Bombay, India and vicinity (sheets
in the 47 A, B, E, and F blocks). My search of the
major vendor's catalogs did not yield any coverage for
this area. If your library owns and is willing to loan
these maps please contact me. Thank you.
Marsha L. Selmer, Map Librarian, University of Illinois at Chicago
([log in to unmask]) 312/996-2672 FAX 312-413-0424
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