Rennell’s mapping of northern India and Bengal

An important map of northern India, showing from Delhi east to the Bay of Bengal, marking the major roads. This version was published two years before Rennell's own map.
Beginning in 1764, James Rennell (1742-1830) surveyed Bengal for the East India Company under the patronage of Robert Clive & Warren Hastings, as Calcutta was being established as the headquarters of the East India Company in India.
After over a decade of work Rennell was forced to retire, having been seriously wounded in 1766, and retired to England, where he started work on his 'atlas'. The quality of his work was such that when it was first published in 1780 (not 1779 as is often quoted because of the date on the maps) it earned him a fellowship of the Royal Society (1781) and the sobriquet 'the father of Indian cartography'..