印度地图语言实验的语言学概览，1896–1927

IF 0.3 4区历史学 Q4 GEOGRAPHY

Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography Pub Date : 2023-08-24 DOI:10.1080/03085694.2023.2225984

Philip Jagessar

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The Linguistic Survey of India’s Experiment in Mapping Languages, 1896–1927

ABSTRACT The Linguistic Survey of India (LSI), supervised by the Anglo-Irish linguist and civil servant George A. Grierson, surveyed and classified more than seven hundred languages and dialects. An integral part of the state-funded survey was mapping where languages were spoken in India, which resulted in the publication of 45 language maps between 1899 and 1927. As individual maps they are comparable to other thematic maps of the period. As a series of language maps, however, they are inconsistent in scale, colour, use of relief and labels, and depiction of boundaries. This paper argues that the inconsistency in presentation reflected the LSI’s experimental approach to mapping language, trying to reconcile the approximate representation of a complex geographical phenomenon with the colonial state’s expectation for accurate and up-to-date language maps.

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