"India intra Gangem – India within the Ganges – was the Latin name used by Europeans for many centuries when they were referring to what we now call the Indian subcontinent or South Asia. This was to distinguish it from many other Indias, the name given for any land beyond the river Indus before it was known what was really?there. This book is about the maps of India from earliest times until the accurate surveys of the nineteenth century. In seven chapters the story of how these maps came to be drawn is related. Then follows a detailed catalogue of maps of India that were printed up to 18. Three indexes are provided, making it an easy task to identify any loose sheet map of India that has become detached from the book it once used to?illustrate. Sixty-five maps are reproduced, many of them for the first time since they were printed centuries ago. Details from famous world maps are also shown, giving a fuller picture of how an accurate shape was gradually given to India on the maps. A few?early?manuscript?maps?drawn?by?Indians?have?been?included. Written in an easy style, the book combines fact and fascination, and will charm the general reader as well as the serious student of geography, history and socio­logy.?It?is?naturally?a?mine?of?information?for?the?serious?collector?of?early?maps." \n