New Survey of India half-inch to the mile mapping, 1912-1951
The National Library of Scotland has added online an additional 1,860 Survey of India maps, at the half-inch to the mile scale. These provide detailed coverage of large parts of India as well as the neighbouring countries of Bangladesh, Burma/Myanmar and Pakistan in the first half of the 20th century. These attractive and colourful maps show settlements, railways, roads, woodland and forest, cultivated land, rivers and irrigation tanks. These maps have been georeferenced so they can easily be compared with the present day.
- Survey of India home page (1912-1951).
- View the maps with a graphic index
- View the maps as a seamless layer on a satellite image base
- Compare the maps Side by side with modern satellite imagery
- Read further information about these maps
