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1949 · Best.-Nr. 666470 — Office of the Director Southern Circle Survey of India 1949. First Edition. Map. Very Good. Published by Brigadier G.F. Heaney C.B.E. F.R.I.C.S. Surveyor General of India 1946-1951. Office of the Director Southern Circle Survey of India. Bangalore. 1949. A color map scale 67.8 miles to 1inch with detailed key; featuring thirty-two 5 x 8 in panels mounted on linen and folded into sections between two blue cloth boards with a mounted printed label to the front. Folding out rectangularly to approximately 41 x 32 in. Light wear to the linen the two folds near the boards are split about 2 inch at the top; overall a clean map colors are vibrant. Very Good. // The Survey of India which began after WWII and on through the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 producing this railway map. As noted on the map: "The Indo-Pakistan boundary shown on this map has not yet been demarcated as an international boundary. alignment therefore is to be regarded as approximate and is not authoritative." // Brigadier G.F. Heaney was in charge of the massive undertaking of surveying India 1946-1951 mapping out the topography canals systems and railroads often facing under the duress of the then brutal partition into the separate nations states of India and Pakistan the hardships and lack of man power to complete the task. Office of the Director, Southern Circle, Survey of India unknown