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1854 Pharoah Map of Warangal and Karimnagar Districts of Telangana, India
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Title
Circars of Eilgundel Mullangoor and Warungel in the Dominions of His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad.
1854 (undated) 8.5 x 10.5 in (21.59 x 26.67 cm) 1 : 1013760
1854 (undated) 8.5 x 10.5 in (21.59 x 26.67 cm) 1 : 1013760
Description
This is an 1854 Pharoah and Company map of the Circars of Eilgundel, Mullangoor and Warungul under the Nizam of Hyderabad corresponding roughly to the modern day districts of Warangal and Karimnagar in Telangana, India. It extends from the Godavari River south to Gottiparthy. The towns of Elgandal, Mullangoor and Warangal are identified. Elgandal Fort, surrounded by a moat filled with crocodiles, was a stronghold of the NIzam of Hyderabad and the headquarters of Karimnagar.
Circars or Sarkars were historical division of a province used in the Mughal states of India. The regions of Elgandal and Warangal were part of the princely state of Hyderabad from 1724 to 1948, until the Nizam was overthrown by the Indian Armed Forces following its independence.
This map was engraved by J. and C. Walker and issued as plate no. 34 by Pharoah and Company in their 1854 Atlas of Southern India.
Circars or Sarkars were historical division of a province used in the Mughal states of India. The regions of Elgandal and Warangal were part of the princely state of Hyderabad from 1724 to 1948, until the Nizam was overthrown by the Indian Armed Forces following its independence.
This map was engraved by J. and C. Walker and issued as plate no. 34 by Pharoah and Company in their 1854 Atlas of Southern India.
Cartographer
John Walker, Alexander Walker and Charles Walker, known collectively as J & C Walker (fl. 1820-95), were engravers, draughtsmen and publishers working through the 19th century. They had several offices 47 Bernard St Russel Sq (from 1830 - 1836), 3 Burleigh St Strand (from 1837 to 1840), 9 Castle St Holborn (from 1841 to 1847) and 37 Castle St Holborn (from 1848 to 1875). The firm is best known for its work in conjunction with the maps issued by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge or, as it is more commonly known, the S.D.U.K. However, they also engraved a large corpus of work for the British Admiralty , as well as issuing several important maps of India and multiple issues of the Royal Atlas.
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.
References
OCLC: 711967281.