Talk:Cartography of India

Jingoism
As was to be expected, I see that Indian jingoism has caught up with this article. I'll try to fix it, removing the more eccentric attempts to pull "cartography" from IVC bricks or the Ramayana. Note that this article concerns maps of India (regardless of who draws them), not "maps made by Indians".--dab (𒁳) 09:27, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

I found this in ''Gole, S. Size as a Measure of Importance in Indian Cartography. Imago Mundi, Vol. 42, (1990), pp. 99-105.'':

Gole is just speculating that IVC people must have known map-making. She's not a "jingoistic Indian".

As for Ramayana, people have been drawing cosmological drawings since antiquity. It never means that they have any geographical knowledge but these sketches deserve a mention just because they're sketches of places (similar has been done in Earliest_known_maps (History of Cartography). Its no jingoistic attempt, just that when people like the above quoted British commentator (mentioned in DC Sircar) cover the history of cartographic charts they usually mention both real and imaginary charts while pointing out that the imaginary charts were, well, imaginary (and useless for navigation etc.).

JSR (talk) 15:27, 17 August 2008 (UTC)


 * As for "Note that this article concerns maps of India (regardless of who draws them), not maps made by Indians": Duly noted. Foreign maps of India predate Indian traditions. When I add them (with sources, and in the lede) then do I add them in a seperate section or add each in their respective time periods?
 * JSR (talk) 15:32, 17 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I have introduced Greek cartographers into the article as asked. Both within the main body and in the lede. JSR (talk) 06:27, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Map of india
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