Thursday, July 18, 2013

Invaluable maps of South Asia, all from the Schwarzberg atlas

From the Digital South Asia Library website

1. Alternative proposals in 1946 for national borders -- this pretty much tells the entire story of the bloodshed around decolonization and Partition in 1947 --
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/fullscreen.html?object=109

2. I contrast demographic composition between 1931 and 1961 using these two maps
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/pager.html?object=128
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/pager.html?object=129

Look at the next few maps on this website for more fine-grained breakdowns by community

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