India II – Madras Presidency

Original antique map of the Madras Presidency, in southern India, produced by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and published in London in 1831. This map covers the present-day states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, as well as the northern part of Tamil Nadu. Among the cities depicted are Chennai (then called Madras), Bangalore, Mysore, Goa and Coimbatore. The Madras Presidency was one of the three principal administrative divisions of British India during the colonial period. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was a British organisation founded in 1826 with the aim of spreading scientific and geographical knowledge among the general public through accessible and low-cost publications. Copperplate engraving.