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This monumental map details the southern frontier of the Russian Empire in Asia, extending southwards to the British sphere of influence in Afghanistan, the Punjab and Kashmir. The western part of the map reaches as far as the Aral Sea and Kashmar, formerly Torshīz (شیز) in Persia. The eastern limits of the map are dominated by the Chinese Empire. The lands covered are today divided between Kazakhstan in the north, Uzbekistan across the center, Kyrgyzstan in the east, Tajikistan in the southeast, and Turkmenistan in the southwest. This represented the primary theatre of The Great Game - the struggle for control in Central Asia between Russia and the British Empire.
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This is a rare 1946 first edition map of Bombay / Mumbai issued by the Survey of India just days before the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny (February 18 - 15, 1946). The map features manuscript annotations near Butcher Island (Dia Deva) in Bombay Harbor - a major focus of the mutiny as the Bombay Presidency’s entire ammunition hold, including telephone and wireless equipment, was stored there. The map is large and meticulously detailed, noting individual buildings, streets, railroads, topography, depth soundings, and more - without a doubt, the finest map of Bombay then obtainable.
Royal Indian Navy MutinyAlso known as the 1946 Naval Uprising, the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny was a revolt of Indian naval personnel, soldiers, police, and civilians against British authority in India. The revolt followed closely on the heels of World War II (1939 - 1945), wherein the British leveraged the population of India to rapidly expand the Royal Indian Navy (RIN). By 19
Major General Lord Rennell, Chief of Civil Affairs in Sicily in 1943
Credit: Imperial War Museum
When 48-year-old Francis Rodd, 2nd Lord Rennell, was appointed Chief Civil Affairs Officer of Allied occupied Sicily in 1943, he had a major bone of contention with the Americans. They had sacked all the Italian fascist officials but replaced them with local Mafia bosses. Some of the American officers were too close to the mobsters and the British administrator vowed to break their hold over the island.
It was a dangerous task, but for Rennell, who left his career in the City to explore the Sahara in his 20s, it was just another interesting challenge. During the time he was in charge of law and order on the island, he perhaps came closest to smashing the pernicious influence of the Cosa Nostra.
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A Hindu village in a clearing, the Sundarbans. 1843. Sketch by Frederic Peter Layard (1818-1891). Worked up from an earlier sketch of January 1839.
Tilman Henckell [Judge and Magistrate of Jessore] at an early period of his magistracy, turned his attention to the Sundarbans, and he was the founder of the system of reclamation which is now converting these great forests into immense rice tracts. The route from the eastern districts to Calcutta passed at that time by nearly the same river-courses which it follows now by Kochua, Khulna, Chandkhali, and by the river leading past Kaliganj. But this route was then south of the cultivated tracts, and for the most part lay through forest, no habitations being on either side. Cultivation had in some places been carried farther south for example, in the pergunnahs of Hogla and Chirulia; but the above description for the most part held good.