Chotila Topographical Map Purchase

AR-011-0005

This 1926 correspondence, spanning 12 pages, records the purchase of topographical maps for the Chotila region by the Sadul Dada Khachar Estate. Beginning with a request to the Political Agent of Eastern Kathiawar, the exchange includes responses from the Survey of India’s Map Record & Issue Office in Calcutta regarding cost, scale, and availability, noting that Chotila was covered in sheets 76, 77, and 93 of the Bombay Survey. It also contains receipts, price statements, and documentation of dispatch via V.P.P. (Value Payable Post). The correspondence highlights how princely estates engaged with colonial institutions to access cartographic knowledge, reflecting the role of mapping technologies in shaping governance, infrastructure development, and knowledge-making in early 20th-century western India.

circa 1926

Darbar Collections

Chotila Topographical Map Purchase