India (Southern Part)

1910

Offset print on paper

Print size: 10.75 x 15 in (27 x 38 cm)
Sheet size: 11.5 x 17 in (29.5 x 43 cm)

India (Southern Part) — A Britannica-Published Administrative and Map of Southern India and Ceylon (1910)

This finely printed 1910 administrative map of Southern India, issued by The Encyclopaedia Britannica Company, presents a detailed political and geographic survey of the southern Indian peninsula, encompassing the Madras Presidency region, the Deccan interior, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and the Bay of Bengal. Produced by one of the most influential reference publishers of the modern era, the map reflects Britannica’s mission to standardise, disseminate, and visually systematise authoritative global knowledge for educational and scholarly audiences.

Provincial boundaries are delineated in colour, while railway networks, port cities, maritime channels, and coastal soundings underscore the strategic importance of Southern India’s littoral and Indian Ocean trade routes. Particular visual emphasis is placed on the Coromandel Coast and Bay of Bengal corridor, situating South India within wider regional and transoceanic commercial systems.

Structured within a precise latitude–longitude grid and executed with crisp typographic clarity, the sheet exemplifies the mature visual language of early twentieth-century imperial and educational cartography, balancing administrative utility with geographic comprehensiveness. As a historical artefact, it documents colonial territorial organisation, infrastructure development, and the role of global encyclopaedic publishing in shaping public geographic knowledge.

A refined and contextually significant example of Britannica’s cartographic output and of Southern India’s representation within international reference culture.

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