From James Rennel's Survey of Bengal (1765-71) to George Everest's retirement in 1843 as Surveyor general of India, geography served in the front lines of the British East India Company's territorial and intellectual conquest of South Asia. In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, focusing especially on the Great Trigonometrical Survey (GTS) undertaken by the Company, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain employed modern scientific ...
