'The Burrampooter River from Gwahatty to Littoree. Surveyed in the Months of February & March 1793 by Ensign Thomas Wood of the Bengal Eng[inee]rs.'
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Forms the second of a six-sheet map series of the Burrampooter River in north-eastern India from Noghurbera upstream to the entry point of the D'hekowe River 240 miles east-northeastwards. Surveyed by Ensign Thomas Wood between 1792 and 1794, and filed at IOR/X/521 to IOR/X/526. This sheet depi...
‘Persia Compiled Principally from Original Authorities by Captain (Local Major) O.B.C.ST. John, (Royal Engineers) by Order of H.M. Secretary of State for India’
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Imprint: Stanford’s Geographical Estab[lishmen]t, Charing Cross. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading. General map of Persia compiled by Captain Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St John by order of H.M. Secretary of State for India. Map shows various routes including Pottinger’s expediti...
‘Plan of the Defensible Barrack or Military Post intended for the Table Land immediately overlooking The Raving or Valey of the Wells. Aden’ and ‘Battery and Defences on Seera Mole, Aden’
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Distinctive Features: Compiled and signed by a Special Committee on the Aden Defences formed of Engineers Lieutenant Colonel C.W. Grant and Major Artillery William Jacob, Bombay 23rd April 1844. Includes plans and corresponding longitudinal sections and elevations showing proposed barracks wit...
Military Report and Gazetteer on the Peshawar District 1939, second edition
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Two copies (IOR/X/12172/16/1 and IOR/X/12172/16). For Official use Only. General Staff, India. Printed by Manager, Government of India Press, Calcutta 1940. Contents [Outline]:BibliographyBrief English-Pushtu vocabulary of useful wordsGlossary of Common Vernacular TermsChapter I. HistoryChapter I...
'Sketch Map of India Shewing Political and Revenue Divisions 1869. 3rd Edition with corrections to 1869.' Published by the Survey of India.
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Map series in 6 sheets numbered 1 to 6. Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights and hachures, roads, railways, settlements, place names and administrative boundaries. Sheet 6 has an inset of the Tenasserim Provinces. While the printed date is given as 1869, manuscript additions to railways su...
'Sketch Map of India Shewing the Disposition of Troops in the Presidencies of Bengal, Madras & Bombay. 1863.' Information supplied by the Quartemaster General's Department.
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One map on 2 lithographed sheets with manuscript additions, mostly detailing military positions; many of these additions have been drawn on to paper and pasted on to the lithographed sheet. . Portrays hydrology, relief by hachures and rock drawing, roads, railways, canals, settlements, place nam...
'Military Map of India Shewing the Disposition of the Troops of the Bengal, Madras & Bombay Presidencies'. 'July and August 1867. Topog[raphical]. Depôt, War Office.' - India Office map catalogue.
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Portrays hydrology, railways, settlements, distances between significant settlements, place names, administrative boundaries, and military depots and dispositions. Bears the note 'Lithographed at the Topographical Depot of the War Office under the Superintendence of Lt. Coll. A.C. Cooke C.B. R....
'The Burrampooter River from Littoree to Kolliabar. Surveyed in the Months of Nov[embe]r. & Dec[embe]r. 1793 By Ens[ig]n. Thomas Wood of the Bengal Eng[inee]rs.'
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Forms the third of a six-sheet map series of the Burrampooter River in north-eastern India from Noghurbera upstream to the entry point of the D'hekowe River 240 miles east-northeastwards. Surveyed by Ensign Thomas Wood between 1792 and 1794, and filed at IOR/X/521 to IOR/X/526. This sheet depic...
‘Plan of the Island & Harbor of Beni Yass by Lieut.ts G.B. Brucks & R. Cogan. 1822’
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Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Hand drawn nautical chart of the shores of the Persian Gulf compiled from the survey carried out by the Bombay Marine’s officers in 1823 showing Seer Beni Yass [Şīr Banī Yās]. The word 'Harbour' is misspelled in the ti...
Tribal Tables of the Mahsuds, Wazirs (Darwesh Khel) and Daurs
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For Official use only. Two copies of this volume, IOR/X/12172/18/1 and IOR/X/12172/18/2. Third edition, dated 1927. These tables are published as an Appendix to the Military Report on Waziristan, 1924. The tables are in the form of 'family trees' of the main divisions and subdivisions of the trib...
