Digital Image: 1935 Survey of India Map of Peshawar, Pakistan
PeshawarGuide-surveyofindia-1935_d
Title
Peshāwar Guide Map.
1935 (dated) 26.25 x 42.25 in (66.675 x 107.315 cm) 1 : 10560
1935 (dated) 26.25 x 42.25 in (66.675 x 107.315 cm) 1 : 10560
Description
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Cartographer S
Survey 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...
Harold John Couchman (July 29, 1882 - November 30, 1956) was a British surveyor and soldier who became Surveyor of India. Born in Haileybury, he attended school in Haileybury before entering the Royal Military Academy. Commissioned in the Royal Engineers in August 1900, Couchman was transferred to India in 1902. In 1906 he became part of the geodetic branch of the Survey of India. Initially assigned to assist with fieldwork, by the 1908-09 field season Couchman oversaw operations in southwest India. In 1910-11 he took part in the regional gravity surveys of Burma and then in 1912-14 in southern and central India. He was transferred to the headquarters office of the Survey of India in the spring of 1914. During World War I, he served in France and Belgium from September 1915 until November 1918. In 1919 he returned to the Survey of India and spent the rest of his career with the Survey, except for three years (1926 - 1929) when he served as deputy master, security printing. Over the course of these years, he served as director in Shillong, Simla, and Calcutta, and, in 1933, was appointed Surveyor General. He held that position until he retired in 1937. He rose to the rank of brigadier in 1933 and was knighted in 1937. He married Evelyn Beatrice in 1925 and they had no children. Learn More...
References
Lanzillo, A., 'Building Peshawar: Labor, Security, and Infrastructure at the Edge of Empire', Journal of Social History (Vol. 56, No. 3 Spring 2023) pp. 532-558. Accessed June 5, 2023.