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Two starting places for gazetteers of India are Henry Scholberg, The District
Gazetteers of British India (Bibliotheca Asiatica 3: Zug, 1970), and S B
Chaudhuri, History of the Gazetteers of India (New Delhi, 1964).
Further references in my chapter 'Maps' in South Asian Bibliography, A handbook
and guide, ed J D Pearson (Hassocks, 1979).
Andrew Cook
From: Humphrey Southall <humphrey.south...@port.ac.uk>
To: Discussion group for map history <maphist@geo.uu.nl>
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Subject: Re: [MapHist] Looking for articles or books about the history of
gazetteers and itineraries as a form of writing
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I am very involved in current work with semantic gazetteers, and have also
worked fairly extensively with British 19th century gazetteers; I have
integrated four of them, with around 90,000 entries into the Great Britain
Historical GIS, and so into our web site A Vision of Britain through Time. See:
http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/ijhac.2011.0028
This is very much about trying to link current work to enrich gazetteers with
the earlier building of descriptive gazetteers. So is there anywhere I can read
about "gazetteer-writing in India and for the adjacent countries in the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries", because I very much want to!
I am working with people familiar with a very much earlier Chinese tradition of
gazetteer writing.
Thanks,
Humphrey Southall
From: andrew cook <ascook2...@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: andrew cook <ascook2...@yahoo.co.uk>, Discussion group for map
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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:50:03 +0000 (GMT)
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Subject: Re: [MapHist] Looking for articles or books about the history of
gazetteers and itineraries as a form of writing
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Humphrey Southall
It depends very much which type of gazetteer you are concerned with.
Place-finding gazetteers are very different from historical/descriptive
gazetteers. If the former, google <PCGN >or [US] <BGN Geonames>, as both have
a long history of assembling gazetteers for rectifying place-name forms for
official use. If the latter, even where the lists of names are systematic, the
history of gazetteer-writing derives very much from writing of topographical
history of the country concerned. I can speak a little for gazetteer-writing
in India and for the adjacent countries in the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries: others will be more conversant with the history of the development
of topographical knowledge of the countries they are concerned with.
HTH (but I'm not sure it will)
Andrew Cook
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