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Memoir of a Map of Hindustan or the Mogul Empire, written by James Rennell in 1793, is a historical and geographical account of India during the Mughal Empire. The book is a detailed analysis of the geography and political divisions of India during the time of the Mughal rule. Rennell, a British geographer, cartographer, and surveyor, had been appointed as the Surveyor General of Bengal by the East India Company in 1764. His extensive travels and surveys of India enabled him to create one of the most accurate maps of the region at the time. The book is divided into two parts. The first part contains an introduction to the geography and political divisions of India, which provides a contextual understanding of the map. The second part is a detailed analysis of the map itself. Rennell explains the various features of the map, such as the rivers, mountains, and cities, and provides historical and cultural information about the regions depicted. The Memoir of a Map of Hindustan is a valuable resource for historians, geographers, and anyone interested in the history and culture of India during the Mughal Empire. It provides a comprehensive understanding of the geography and political divisions of India during the period, and also sheds light on the British colonial perspective of India during the 18th century.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Published posthumously in 1831, this two-volume work by James Rennell, the father of historical geography, surveys an area from Egypt to the Danube and from the Aegean to the Caspian Sea. Volume 1 lays out his geographical findings, and begins to discuss the relations of modern to ancient sites.

James Rennell (1742-1830) could be claimed as the father of historical geography. After a long career at sea and in India, during which he had learned surveying and cartography, he returned to England and entered the circle of Sir Joseph Banks, who encouraged him to widen his interests to include the geography of the ancient world. In this work, published in 1814, Rennell compares the actual topography of the area in which Troy was believed to be located with the accounts of ancient commentators on Homer, with the Homeric accounts themselves, and finally with the work of ancient geographers. Without offering his own solution to the problem, he demolishes with zest the then current theory that Troy was located at the village of Bournabashi - a conclusion with which Heinrich Schliemann later agreed. Rennell's posthumously published work on the topography of Western Asia is also reissued in this series.