COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Survey Of India
Date:
1920
Short Title:
Population of India Shown by Rectangles.
Publisher:
Survey Of India
Publisher Location:
Calcutta
Type:
Separate Map
Obj Height cm:
33
Obj Width cm:
38
Note:
Date estimated.
Reference:
University of Chicago Library: G7651.E2 1930 .S8 / OCLC: 863708377; Survey of India, Catalogue of Maps published by the Survey of India / Corrected up to 1st January 1923 (Calcutta, 1923), p. 14.
Country:
India
Country:
Myanmar
Country:
Nepal
Subject:
Data Visualization
Subject:
Thematic
Subject:
Population
Full Title:
Population of India Shown by Rectangles. Each Rectangular Compartment, And Also Each Coastal Portion, Represents 1 Million Persons.
List No:
10483.000
Publication Author:
Survey Of India
Pub Date:
1920
Pub Title:
Population of India Shown by Rectangles. Each Rectangular Compartment, And Also Each Coastal Portion, Represents 1 Million Persons.
Pub Note:
"Heliozincograph in colours. This extremely rare and sophisticated thematic map depicts the population of India and its various jurisdictions; it was separately issued by the Survey of India in Calcutta shortly after the end of World War I. Areas on the map shaded in pink represent territories directly subject to the British Raj, while areas shaded in yellow are princely states. The Subcontinent is overlaid by a series of blue rectangles and partial rectangles of various sizes; each section of territory within each rectangle contains 1 million persons. As such densely populated areas, such as the Bombay and Calcutta regions, feature numerous small rectangles, while areas with large rectangles, such as Baluchistan, are lightly populated Each jurisdiction is also overlaid by a green circular graph, which is explained in the inset in the lower right, noting that ‘Co-operative statistics for 1917-8 are shown in Circles whose areas are proportional to Population’. Within each circle the shaded sectors refer to, in the Upper left: ‘Number of Societies’; Upper right: ‘Number of Members’; and Bottom: ‘Capital’ city. Accordingly, ‘The areas of related sectors are proportional to the statistics, and the included angles show the relation of the statistics to the population’. Interestingly, the inset in the lower left corner features a map of the British Isles on the same scale as the greater map, overlaid with population rectangles. It not only shows that India’s colonial overlord was diminutive in geographical size compared the Subcontinent but was also much smaller demographically. In 1921, Great Britain and Ireland had a total population of around 47 million, compared to 318 million for India! While many population maps of India were made by the Raj, the present map is the most sophisticated variation were have encountered; it is a remarkable work of colonial thematic cartography. The present map was listed as being available for sale in the January 1923 Survey of India Catalogue, although it was likely printed a couple years earlier. The survival rate for such separately issued maps produced in India is extremely low, and the work is today extremely rare; we can trace only single institutional example, at the University of Chicago Library." (Alexander Johnson, 2020)
Pub List No:
10483.000
Pub Type:
Separate Map
Pub Height cm:
33
Pub Width cm:
38
Image No:
10483000.jp2
Authors:
Survey Of India
Link To Source
Population of India Shown by Rectangles.
