Map of Udagamandalam
Date
1834
Creator
Jean-Baptiste Tassin (1800 - 1868, French) , Lithographer
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height (print): 260mm
width (print): 336mm
width (print): 336mm
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Description
Map of the compounds in Ootacamund, the modern town of Udagamandalam (sometimes abbreviated to Ooty) in the Nilgirri Mountains of the state of Tamil Nadu, southern India. In the nineteenth century, the settlement was a popular hill station.
This map shows a plan of the station compounds, mainly occupied by British officers and officials within the Ootacamund, Kaundlemund and Munjacamund districts. There is a lake in the southern half of the region surrounded by dwellings drawn in pink and numbered. A key detailing the owners or name of the dwellings is visible to the top left of the map. A continuation (88-102 top right) shows the locations of Indian sepoys’ barracks with non-commissioned officers, stores etc. Villages are marked with orange buildings. Scale: 2 furlongs to 1 inch.
Plate 2 (not numbered) from the book Observations on the Neilgherries, including an account of their topography, climate, soil & productions… by R Baikie, Esq M.D. ed W.H. Smoult (Calcutta, 1834).
Inscribed with the title lower right: ‘PLAN of the Compounds in the Cantonment of OOTACAMUND 1834’. Inscribed below: ‘J.B. Tassin del & lith.’
Robert Baikie (1799-1889) British physician and East India Company surgeon in the Madras Army. Baikie retired from service in 1844 and then practised medicine in Edinburgh.
This map shows a plan of the station compounds, mainly occupied by British officers and officials within the Ootacamund, Kaundlemund and Munjacamund districts. There is a lake in the southern half of the region surrounded by dwellings drawn in pink and numbered. A key detailing the owners or name of the dwellings is visible to the top left of the map. A continuation (88-102 top right) shows the locations of Indian sepoys’ barracks with non-commissioned officers, stores etc. Villages are marked with orange buildings. Scale: 2 furlongs to 1 inch.
Plate 2 (not numbered) from the book Observations on the Neilgherries, including an account of their topography, climate, soil & productions… by R Baikie, Esq M.D. ed W.H. Smoult (Calcutta, 1834).
Inscribed with the title lower right: ‘PLAN of the Compounds in the Cantonment of OOTACAMUND 1834’. Inscribed below: ‘J.B. Tassin del & lith.’
Robert Baikie (1799-1889) British physician and East India Company surgeon in the Madras Army. Baikie retired from service in 1844 and then practised medicine in Edinburgh.
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