Survey of India

A collection of reports, articles and books published by and about the Survey of India .


1822 Heights and Positions of Principal Peaks of Himalaya Mountains by Hodgson and Herbert from ARv14 s.pdf  16.91 MB

1822 Latitudes of Places in Hindustan and Northern Mountains by Hodgson from ARv14 s.pdf  1.95 MB

1837 Memoir on Origin, Progress, and Present State of Surveys in India by Jervis from JRGSv7 s.pdf  1.27 MB

1838 On the use of Common Thermometers to determine heights by Sykes from JRGSv8 s.pdf  528.31 KB

1851 Adaptation of the Aneroid for purposes of Surveying in India by Buist from JRGSv21 s.pdf  1.07 MB

1851 Trigonometrical Survey (India) Printed Parliamentary Paper no 219.pdf  4.33 MB

1854 Survey of Northern Trans-Indus Frontier from Peshawur to Dera Ismael Khan in 1849-53 by Walker s.pdf  1.01 MB

1857 Papers relating to the Himalaya and Mount Everest from PRGSv1 s.pdf  534.75 KB

1858 On Mounts Everest and Deodanga by Waugh from PRGSv2 s.pdf  1.30 MB

1859 Influence of Mountain-Attraction on heights of Mount Everest by Pratt from JASBv28 s.pdf  404.21 KB

1859 On Trigonometrical Survey and Physical Configuration of the Valley of Kashmir by Purdon from PRGSv4 s.pdf  220.73 KB

1861 Progress on Trigonometrical Survey in Kashmir and Conquest of Gilgit by Montgomerie s.pdf  698.25 KB

1861 SOI photo of Waugh Walker and Thuillier.jpg  3.13 MB

1861 Survey of Kashmir under Montgomerie and Map of the Valley from JASBv29 s.pdf  850.48 KB

1861 Survey of the Jhelum River for navigation by Forster s.pdf  311.36 KB

1862 Progress of Kashmir Series of GTS of India with map by Montgomerie from JASBv30 s.pdf  497.98 KB

1863 Effect of Local Attraction upon Operations of GTS by Pratt from JASBv31 s.pdf  310.99 KB

1863 Trigonometrical Survey of India by Walker from JASBv31 s.pdf  730.60 KB

1864 Progress of Trigonometrical Survey of India by Walker from JASBv32 s.pdf  781.56 KB

1865 Great Trigonometrical Survey of India--in Professional Papers on Indian Engr v2.pdf  1.76 MB

1865 Operations of GTS of India during 1862-63 by Walker from JASBv33 s.pdf  1.12 MB

1865 Theory of Pendulum Operations by GTS of India by Basevi from JASBv34pt2 s.pdf  949.72 KB

1867 On a Transit-Instrument and Zenith Sector to be used by GTS by Strange s.pdf  226.94 KB

1870 Pendulum Operations in India in connexion with the GTS by Walker s.pdf  663.95 KB

1870 Surveys of India--The Trigonometrical Survey by Danvers in Quarterly J of Sci v28 s.pdf  998.13 KB

1871 Memoir on the Indian Surveys by Markham s.pdf  18.29 MB

1872 On a new Great Theodolite from the GTS by Strange s.pdf  1.09 MB

1872 Weight of Great Theodolite for the GTS by Strange s.pdf  178.03 KB

1876 Office of GTS of India--Dehra Dun photo.jpg  2.09 MB

1877 Introductory Lecture on Scientific Geography by Strachey from PRGSv21 s.pdf  1.44 MB

1877 Presentation of Royal and other Awards (Nain Singh) from PRGSv21 s.pdf  655.17 KB

1878 Application of Photography to reproduction of Maps and Plans by Waterhouse from JASBv47pt2 s.pdf  3.36 MB

1878 Catalogue of Reports Field Books Memoirs Maps etc of the Indian Surveys in India Office s.pdf  35.27 MB

1878 India Office Map Catalogue with British Library notes and corrections.pdf  47.58 MB

1878 Memoir on the Indian Surveys by Markham--2nd edition s.pdf  30.50 MB

1879 Survey Operations in Afghanistan by Walker from JASBv48pt2 s.pdf  2.96 MB

1885 Summary of Work of Survey of India by Walker from PRGSv7NS s.pdf  2.17 MB

1886 Spirit-Levelling Operations of GTS of India by Baird from RGSSPvI s.pdf  671.16 KB

1889 Spirit-Levelled Heights in Cuttack Balasore etc. by Survey of India s.pdf  3.94 MB

1893 Survey of Travancore and Cochin States by Ward.pdf  17.48 MB

1897 Memorandum on Map of Portion of Tibet by Deasy s.pdf  232.02 KB

1898 Report on Trigonometrical Results of Earthquake in Assam by Burrard s.pdf  609.06 KB

1898 Total Solar Eclipse January 22nd 1898--Report on Observations s.pdf  7.74 MB

1902 The Survey of India by Strahan RE Professional Paper 8 s.pdf  3.37 MB

1904 Identification and Nomenclature of Himalayan Peaks from Katmandu by Wood s.pdf  3.06 MB

1904 Mt. Everest The story of a long controversy by Burrard in Nature Vol 71 s.pdf  787.72 KB

1905 Intensity and Direction of Gravity in India by Burrard s.pdf  5.55 MB

1905 Report of Indian Survey Committee 1904-05 s.pdf  10.83 MB

1905 Report of the Indian Survey Committee 1904-05--Part 2 appendices s.pdf  20.77 MB

1906 Longitude by Telegraph Round the World from GJv27 s.pdf  414.22 KB

1906 Rules Regarding showing of Borders on Maps--transcribed by Gardner.pdf  1.20 MB

1910 Journals of Major James Rennell first Surveyor General of India by La Touche from MASBv3 s.pdf  8.08 MB

1911 Simplification of Computations relating to Rectangular Co-ordinates by Eccles s.pdf  1.54 MB

1911 The Survey of the Himalaya by Longstaff from GJv37 s.pdf  145.26 KB

1912 Changes of Axes of Terrestrial Spheroid by de Graaff Hunter s.pdf  5.99 MB

1913 Notes on VanDyke or Direct Zinc Printing Process s.pdf  1.80 MB

1913 Review--Records of Survey of India Vol 1 by Burrard from GJv41 s.pdf  80.56 KB

1913 The Tsang-po (and Kintup) by Bailey from GJv42 s.pdf  119.09 KB

1914 Indo-Russian Triangulation Connection by Mason from GJv43 s.pdf  710.84 KB

1914 Note in Vindication of Kinthup by Oakes s.pdf  705.35 KB

1914 Reproduction of Maps Plans Photographs Diagrams and Line Illustrations by Survey of India s.pdf  5.34 MB

1916 Indo-Russian Triangulation Connection from GJv48 s.pdf  164.29 KB

1916 Plains of Northern India and relationship to Himalaya Mountains by Burrard from JPASBv12 NS s.pdf  1.45 MB

1916 The Romance of the Indian Surveys by Holdich s.pdf  1.94 MB

1918 Geological Interpretations of Geodetic Results by Burrard from GJv52 s.pdf  356.97 KB

1918 Nomenclature of Himalayan Peaks from GJv52 s.pdf  140.30 KB

1918 Possibility of Aerial Reconnaissance in Himalaya by Kellas from GJv51 s.pdf  839.56 KB

1921 Exploration in South-East Tibet by Morshead s.pdf  5.56 MB

1923 Kishen Singh and Indian Explorers by Mason from GJv62 s.pdf  658.70 KB

1927 Stereographic Survey of Shaksgam by Mason from GJv70 s.pdf  3.87 MB

1929 Routes in Western Himalaya Kashmir etc Vol 1 by Mason s.pdf  12.86 MB

1943 The Story of Kintup by Bailey from Geogr Mag v15 s.pdf  2.83 MB

1945 Survey of India Logo.jpg  187.86 KB

1945 Survey of India Map Catalogue--provisional edition s.pdf  18.87 MB

1946 Manual of Map Classification and Cataloguing by Parsons s.pdf  6.94 MB

1947 Air Survey for Development by Survey of India s.pdf  8.40 MB

1947 Survey and Mapping Policy--Survey of India by Heaney s.pdf  6.00 MB

1952 Survey of India since Second World War by Heaney from GJv118 s.pdf  2.22 MB

1955 The Survey of India during War and Early Reconstruction 1939-1946 by Wheeler s.pdf  26.93 MB

1960 Survey of Kashmir and Jammu 1855 to 1865 by Phillimore s.pdf  1,013.96 KB

1968 Clements Robert Markham and Geographical Department of India Office 1867-77 by Williams from GJv134 s.pdf  1.76 MB

1968 Rennell and the Surveyors of India by Heaney from GJv134 s.pdf  1.63 MB

1970 The Forbidden Frontiers--the Survey of India from 1765 to 1949 by Styles.pdf  7.41 MB

1978 Maps of India 1795-1935 by Maharashtra State Archives s.pdf  20.95 MB

1985 Who Discovered Mount Everest? by Dickey s.pdf  1.32 MB

1990 Mapping an Empire--Geographical Construction of British India 1765-1843 by Edney s.pdf  33.99 MB

1990 Thomas Montgomerie and the Trans-Himalayan Explorers of the Survey of India by Waller s.pdf  454.19 KB

1991 Atlas of India 1823-1947--Natural History of a Topographical Map Series by Edney.pdf  5.99 MB

2000 Survey of Indias plan to meet the countrys need for digital geographical data by Srivastava s.pdf  711.10 KB

2003 Making History Drawing Territory--British Mapping in India by Barrow s.pdf  17.94 MB

2016 Transfrontier Maps of the Survey of India by Cook.pdf  431.72 KB

2017 Clean Out the Map--Knowing and doubting space at Indias high imperial frontiers by Simpson s.pdf  359.86 KB

2018 List of Surveyor Generals of India.pdf  77.00 KB