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1929 Survey of India Road Map of India w/ Manuscript Notations
India-thomas-1929Survey of India (1767 - Present) is India's central engineering agency in charge of mapping and surveying the country. It was founded in 1767 by Major James Rennell, who took the post of first Surveyor General, with the mission to map and consolidate the territories of the British East India Company. The Survey undertook the Great Trigonometrical Survey between 1802 and 1852 in an attempt to accurately measure the Indian Subcontinent - considered one of the greatest feats of mapping of all time. It also sponsored clandestine surveys, at times disguised as Buddhist pilgrims, to infiltrate and map Tibet, then a closed country. With India's independence in 1947, the Survey was folded into the new Indian government, which it remains part of to this day. More by this mapmaker...
Robert Henry Thomas (April 1877 - 1946) was a British army officer and surveyor active in India. Thomas studied at St. Edmund's College and St. Paul's School. He was aware the Pollock Medal and Commissioned on June 21, 1896. He was posted to the India Service in 1908. Thomas was in charge of Geodetic Parties for a year and was then transferred to charge of the Surveyor-General's office in Calcutta. Around this time he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). Thomas served as Surveyor General of India from 1928 - 1933. He died in London in 1946. Learn More...
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