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Peninsula of India.

This is an attractive 1808 map of India by English map publisher Charles Smith. Covers the subcontinent from Bombay (Mumbai) south to include parts of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Highly detailed. Based on the Faden map of 1793. Divided according to the Princely States as they existed at this time. Predates the British Raj. Most likely engraved by E.

Date
1808
Place
South India
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
2,683 × 3,500 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-Art (PD-old-100); no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

Credit line

"Peninsula of India." (1808). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1808_Smith_Map_of_India_-_Geographicus_-_India-smith-1808.jpg

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