Making History, Drawing Territory: British Mapping in India, C. 1756-1905

By Ian J. Barrow

A unique study of British possession and territorial legitimacy in India as represented by colonial maps, this book focuses on various strategies used by map-makers and surveyors to embed a past into their narratives, and concludes that maps were used both to demonstrate a history of territory and, importantly, to justify the possession of land in colonial times in the Indian subcontinent.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195665465
• ISBN13: 9780195665468
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 8.7"