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Survey of India
Grand Trunk Road of India between Calcutta and Benares, 1860 c
30 x 46 in
76 x 117 cm
76 x 117 cm
IC2900
£ 2,000.00
Survey of India, Grand Trunk Road of India between Calcutta and Benares, 1860 c
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Magnificent wall map showing the route and surrounding country of the Grand Trunk Road between Calcutta or Calicut and Benares. The Grand Trunk Road was originally a trade route which...
Magnificent wall map showing the route and surrounding country of the Grand Trunk Road between Calcutta or Calicut and Benares.
The Grand Trunk Road was originally a trade route which was centuries old. It connected parts of the Far East and central Asia to India on both east and west. It forms part of ancient trade routes but insofar as it can have an eastern and western limit, it stretches from Teknaf in eastern Bangladesh to Kaboul in Afghanistan in the west. In the 1830s, the British East India Company began a program to improve and strengthen the road through the use of metalled road construction, in other words, using bitumen or concrete to harden the surface and make it into an all weather road. This program would begin in Calcutta and finish in Kabul.
This large map is an overview of the section of the Grand Trunk Road between Calcutta as was and Benares. It was compiled from existing material present in the Survey of India. Henry Thuillier, the Deputy Surveyor General has his signature printed on the map with the Surveyor General, A. Scott Waugh also present. The existing material was a series of maps of the Grand Trunk Road surveyed by Charles Joseph of much smaller sections, which were produced mainly for the Indian Revenue Service. The level of detail on this map is quite extraordinary. The scale, as stated on the cartouche, is eight miles to the inch. Our example is a second edition of this map as shown on the margin on the upper left.
The printing date of this map is difficult to ascertain but its counterpart showing the continuation of the road from Benares to Delhi bears a lithographic date of 1858. The second edition may have been printed a little later.
We have been able to find four institutional examples of this map held at the British Library, the University of Oxford Library, the University of Melbourne Library and the John R. Borchert Map Library at the University of Minnesota. Original colour. [IC2900]
The Grand Trunk Road was originally a trade route which was centuries old. It connected parts of the Far East and central Asia to India on both east and west. It forms part of ancient trade routes but insofar as it can have an eastern and western limit, it stretches from Teknaf in eastern Bangladesh to Kaboul in Afghanistan in the west. In the 1830s, the British East India Company began a program to improve and strengthen the road through the use of metalled road construction, in other words, using bitumen or concrete to harden the surface and make it into an all weather road. This program would begin in Calcutta and finish in Kabul.
This large map is an overview of the section of the Grand Trunk Road between Calcutta as was and Benares. It was compiled from existing material present in the Survey of India. Henry Thuillier, the Deputy Surveyor General has his signature printed on the map with the Surveyor General, A. Scott Waugh also present. The existing material was a series of maps of the Grand Trunk Road surveyed by Charles Joseph of much smaller sections, which were produced mainly for the Indian Revenue Service. The level of detail on this map is quite extraordinary. The scale, as stated on the cartouche, is eight miles to the inch. Our example is a second edition of this map as shown on the margin on the upper left.
The printing date of this map is difficult to ascertain but its counterpart showing the continuation of the road from Benares to Delhi bears a lithographic date of 1858. The second edition may have been printed a little later.
We have been able to find four institutional examples of this map held at the British Library, the University of Oxford Library, the University of Melbourne Library and the John R. Borchert Map Library at the University of Minnesota. Original colour. [IC2900]
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