Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964 · THE MAP IN NOV 1858

Map of India in November 1858

The Crown takes over

India in November 1858: The Crown takes over. The map shows who held what: British India — direct rule, Crown colonies · Burma after 1937.

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Map of India in November 1858: The Crown takes over. Colours show British India — direct rule, Crown colonies · Burma after 1937. — NOV 1858 · INDIAN INDEPENDENCE & PARTITION, 1857–1964

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1: dated historical polity records · Natural Earth v5.1.2: complete country reference geometry · Natural Earth: administrative reference units · Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908): Indian Empire political plate

Source details

Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Reviewed record selection; East/West Pakistan selected as complete components; source dates and identities retained.
Natural Earth. Public domain
Natural Earth. Public domain · Full components retained and dissolved into explicitly dated historical groups; no source-coordinate simplification.
J. G. Bartholomew / Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908; scan Fowler & Fowler. Public domain · Native-resolution colour-boundary extraction; printed graticule registration; printed label holes removed, territorial enclaves retained. 1908 geography is explicitly a nearby-date proxy in earlier chapters.

Princely-state geography follows the published 1908 plate. Earlier chapters use it explicitly as a nearby-date reference, rather than reconstructing local state transfers as exact dated surveys.

The British administrative backdrop uses the complete 1859 Raj source, the closest reference before or after the rebellion. The 1857–1858 source excludes insurgent-controlled northern India; those gaps must not appear as neutral territory beneath the thematic rebellion locators.

The treaty/paramountcy patchwork provides a political reference. Hatches for famine, violence and rebellion locate affected reporting regions rather than areas of uniform territorial possession.

proxy: 1859–1859 · proxy: Contemporary regional reference · proxy: Historical enclave, source-vintage outline · proxy: Modern same-enclave reference · proxy: Natural Earth v5.1.2 · reconstruction: 1852–1885 grouping; modern regional reference · reconstruction: 1908 printed patchwork with coastal registration · vector: 1842–1889 · vector: 1853–1858 · vector: 1856–1889 · vector: 1857–1858 · vector: 1857–1872

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