INDIA IN MAPS: FOUR CENTURIES OF CARTOGRAPHY - PART IV: SOUTHERN INDIA (24 MARCH 2026)

 Comprising forty lots, the present Southern India sale traces the cartographic shaping of the peninsula from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Defined by the Malabar and Coromandel coasts, South India entered European geographic consciousness through a world of ports, kingdoms, sacred landscapes, and imperial rivalry. Military siege plans and fortress surveys record the Carnatic and Mysore wars as spatial events, while maritime charts of Calicut, Quilon, Masulipatam, and Pondichéry situate the region within global trade networks.

Enlightenment-era missionary and scientific mapping extended knowledge beyond the coast into the Tamil interior, later consolidated by major atlas-makers such as Delisle, Homann, and d’Anville. The sale concludes with hydrographic, administrative, and modern road maps, revealing Southern India as a key theatre where war, commerce, faith, and survey science converged in the making of territorial knowledge.

Sales touched a total of Rs 22,40,640(US $24,896)  Read more..

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