Section X (Bombay and Berar). Plate 31 (1893)

Section X (Bombay and Berar). Plate 31

Bartholomew, John George · 1893

The western-India regional sheet from Constable’s Hand Atlas of India, covering Bombay and Berar and including small inset material. Survey-derived geography is condensed into a precise administrative reference map.

The atlas system

Plate 31 forms part of a numbered sectional series prepared at the Edinburgh Geographical Institute. The atlas divides India into coherent reference sheets rather than treating the subcontinent only at continental scale.

Bombay and Berar

Administrative boundaries, settlements, routes, hachures and spot heights organise the region. The matching catalogue also records inset maps of Aden and Socotra, reminders that the geography of British India was connected to strategic stations beyond the subcontinent.

Survey condensed

The plate did not reproduce one survey directly. It synthesised official and other cartographic work into the compact, consistent visual language of a late-Victorian hand atlas.

The gaze

Western India appears as settled administrative territory: bounded, connected and reduced to a standard sheet. Authority resides in the calm consistency of the atlas rather than in any dramatic claim of discovery.

Cartographer

John George Bartholomew

Atlas

Constable’s Hand Atlas of India

Plate

Date

1893

Type

Regional atlas map

Publisher

Archibald Constable & Co.

Place

London

Dimensions

17 × 22 cm

Scale

approximately 1:5,500,000

Prepared at

Edinburgh Geographical Institute

Local image provenance

Not recorded in the supplied HTML. The matching record below verifies the object, but is not represented as the source of the local JPG.

Matching record identifier

David Rumsey List No. 11794.036

Matching catalogue record

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection (browse record; List No. identifies the item)