A Map of the Peninsula of India to Cape Comorin

A third edition, not a different map

The full title retains the original date MDCCXCII but the imprint identifies this as the third edition, printed on 10 May 1800. Benjamin Baker re-engraved or revised the two sheets. The page therefore represents a later state of the same cartographic project shown by the 1792–93 issue, not an independently conceived map.

After Seringapatam

Between the first issue and this edition, the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War ended with the fall of Seringapatam in 1799 and a major redistribution of territory. The map’s continued publication shows how survey geography born amid conflict settled rapidly into standard atlas knowledge.

The gaze

A contested peninsula has become a stable reference image. Revision removes the urgency of the campaign without removing its consequences: territorial knowledge produced through war is now encountered as the ordinary, coloured geography of an atlas.