India Through Iconic Maps - by Deepti Anand & Sanghamitra Chatterjee (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

A collector's edition measuring a prodigious 11.5 x 15.5 inches, India Through Iconic Maps is a sight to behold - an unprecedented display of the scale, story and beauty of mapmaking in India.

A collector's edition measuring a prodigious 11.5 x 15.5 inches, India Through Iconic Maps is a sight to behold - an unprecedented display of the scale, story and beauty of mapmaking in India. There is more to a map than just the sheet of paper one sees - there's a motive, a story, people, circumstances, science, mathematics, technology and analysis among other aspects. This book with more than 400 maps aims to highlight and bring forth these hidden layers of a map and trace a unique cartographical history of the Indian subcontinent.

About the Author

Deepti Anand is the co-founder of the heritage management agency, Past Perfect. Over the years, Deepti has been part of several archiving and research projects ranging from corporate and family histories to films, documentaries and web-series that are rooted in history or built on historical contexts. In April 2022 and May 2023, Deepti also co-curated two rare map exhibitions titled Meandering through a Mapped Canvas and Mapped! - Surveys that left behind a Legacy respectively. Sanghamitra Chatterjee is the founder of Past Perfect Heritage Management, an archival and heritage research agency. She is also currently the Secretary of Oral History Association of India. She co-curated the exhibitions Meandering through a Mapped Canvas and Mapped! - Surveys that left behind a Legacy in 2022 and 2023 respectively.