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1854 Pharoah Map of Ramanmalai Block near Ballari, Karnataka, India

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1854 Pharoah Map of Ramanmalai Block near Ballari, Karnataka, India

Ramanmullay-pharoah-1854

Map of the hill station of Ramanmalai or Ramgad in Maharashtra, India during British rule.

Title


Plan of Ramanmullay.
  1854 (undated)     10 x 15 in (25.4 x 38.1 cm)     1 : 14400

Description


This is a beautiful 1854 map by Pharoah and Company depicting Ramanmalai near Sandur town in the Indian state of Karnataka. It covers the hills near Sandur, known as the Ramanmalai block. The map notes beautifully rendered topography of this hill station, along with trees rendered in profile. Various areas, with names of British officers are noted, including Capt. Neill’s garden, Mr. Mellor’s garden, etc. The map also notes the sprints, tanks, ruins, and also a Sanatorium. During the time of British rule, a military sanitarium of Ramandurg was located in the hills west of Sandur, suggesting that the sanitarium noted on this map is the same. Today the region has a number of iron ore mines.

This map was engraved by J. and C. Walker and issued as plate no. 62 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.

References


OCLC: 712143495.