[PDF] Mapping And Place Names Of India eBook

Author : Anu Kapur
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 22,30 MB
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429614217

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This book is the first of its kind to chart the terrain of contemporary India’s many place names. It explores different ‘place connections’, investigates how places are named and renamed, and looks at the forces that are remaking the future place name map of India. Lucid and accessible, this book explores the bonds between names, places and people through a unique amalgamation of toponomy, history, mythology and political studies within a geographical expression. This volume addresses questions on the status and value of place names, their interpretation and classification. It brings to the fore the connections between place names and the cultural, geographical and historical significations they are associated with. This will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of geography, law, politics, history and sociology, and will also be of interest to policy-makers, administrators and the reader interested in India.

Author : United States. Army Map Service
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Military maps
ISBN :

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"Outlines the policy of the Army Map Service in the treatment of place names on military maps. It supersedes the First Edition of AMS Memorandum 453 dated 2 February 1943 and two supplements to it dated 13 May 1943 and 14 July 1943."--Scope (page 1).

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Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Military maps
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"Outlines the policy of the Army Map Service in the treatment of place names on military maps. It supersedes the First Edition of AMS Memorandum 453 dated 2 February 1943 and two supplements to it dated 13 May 1943 and 14 July 1943."--Scope (page 1).

Author : Donald J. Orth
Publisher :
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Alaska
ISBN :

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Each entry conforms to principles of U.S. Board on Geographic Names and lists location, brief history and meaning of name.

Author : Yossef Rapoport
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 022655340X

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About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, features, and inhabitants. This treatise, known as The Book of Curiosities, was unknown to modern scholars until a remarkable manuscript copy surfaced in 2000. Lost Maps of the Caliphs provides the first general overview of The Book of Curiosities and the unique insight it offers into medieval Islamic thought. Opening with an account of the remarkable discovery of the manuscript and its purchase by the Bodleian Library, the authors use The Book of Curiosities to re-evaluate the development of astrology, geography, and cartography in the first four centuries of Islam. Their account assesses the transmission of Late Antique geography to the Islamic world, unearths the logic behind abstract maritime diagrams, and considers the palaces and walls that dominate medieval Islamic plans of towns and ports. Early astronomical maps and drawings demonstrate the medieval understanding of the structure of the cosmos and illustrate the pervasive assumption that almost any visible celestial event had an effect upon life on Earth. Lost Maps of the Caliphs also reconsiders the history of global communication networks at the turn of the previous millennium. It shows the Fatimid Empire, and its capital Cairo, as a global maritime power, with tentacles spanning from the eastern Mediterranean to the Indus Valley and the East African coast. As Lost Maps of the Caliphs makes clear, not only is The Book of Curiosities one of the greatest achievements of medieval mapmaking, it is also a remarkable contribution to the story of Islamic civilization that opens an unexpected window to the medieval Islamic view of the world.

Author : Virgil J. Vogel
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299129842

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List of place-names, primarily those names after American Indian tribes or individuals, including some historical information about each person or tribe.