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1854 Pharoah Map or Plan of the City of Bangalore or Bengaluru, India
Bangalore-pharoah-1854$225.00
Title
Plan of Bangalore.
1854 (undated) 20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.64 cm) 1 : 23400
1854 (undated) 20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.64 cm) 1 : 23400
Description
This is a beautiful 1854 map or plan of the city of Bangalore (Bengaluru), in the Indian state of Karnataka. It covers the old city in 1854 when it was part of the Princely State of Mysore, a nominal sovereign entity of the British Raj controlled by the Maharaja of Mysore. The map extends from the Bangalore Fort east to the Challaghatta Lake (now the Karnataka Golf Association) and north to Gungalapore. A reference under the title lists the various locations noted on the map. Another reference lists the various buildings within the Bangalore Fort noted on the map.
The map focuses on the old city of Bangalore. The British captured Bangalore Fort in 1791 and following the death of Tipu Sultan; it became part of the Princely State of Mysore. Given its pleasant weather, the British cantonment was moved to Bangalore from Seringapatam. Gradually the town around the cantonment absorbed several villages and gradually expanded. Today, Bangalore or Bengaluru is the third most populous city in India.
This map was engraved by J. and C. Walker and issued as plate no. 48 by Pharoah and Company in their 1854 Atlas of Southern India.
The map focuses on the old city of Bangalore. The British captured Bangalore Fort in 1791 and following the death of Tipu Sultan; it became part of the Princely State of Mysore. Given its pleasant weather, the British cantonment was moved to Bangalore from Seringapatam. Gradually the town around the cantonment absorbed several villages and gradually expanded. Today, Bangalore or Bengaluru is the third most populous city in India.
This map was engraved by J. and C. Walker and issued as plate no. 48 by Pharoah and Company in their 1854 Atlas of Southern India.
CartographerS
J. B. Pharoah (fl. c. 1838 – 1869) was a Madras, India, based bookseller and publisher of educational books and map active in the middle of the 19th century. He maintained a bookshop on Mount Road. The form was a general emporium for European published work. They also published a weekly English language newspaper called The Athenaeum and Statesman (in 1864 renamed, he Athenaeum and Daily News). They also published the The Madras Quarterly Medical Journal and The Madras Journal of Literature and Science. Little more is known of Pharoah. More by this mapmaker...
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Source
Pharoah and Company, An Atlas of the Southern Part of India including Plans of all the Principal Towns and Cantonments, reduced from the Grand Trigonometrical Survey of India shewing also The Tenasserim Provinces, (Madras) 1854.
The Pharoah and Company Atlas of Southern India was published around 1854. The medium format 4to atlas contained some 70 maps focusing on the southern part of Indian and the Tanasserium Province, or Burma. The atlas was engraved an printed in London by J. and C. Walker, but seems to have been issued only in Madras, India, by J. B. Pharoah and Company. The atlas claims to have been "reduced from the Grand Trigonometrical Survey of India," and, in fact the survey did provide a framework for the atlas, but little of the actual cartographic detail. The atlas is rather novel in that it has universal scale of 16 miles to the inch (1 : 1013760) for most of its regional maps. In addition to its regional maps, the atlas also contained 21city plans. These plans are some of the only obtainable mid-195h century maps of many South Indian cities. It also contained a rare map of Singapore.
Condition
Very good. Minor foxing. Minor wear along original fold line. Minor verso repair over rip along fold intersection.
References
OCLC: 711967288.