Cosmology to Cartography

Published in accompaniment to the exhibition titled 'Cosmology to Cartography: A Cultural Journey of Indian Maps' at the National Museum, the book discusses a large body of rare Indian maps, tracing the long changing history of terrestrial vision and imagination of the subcontinent from the medieval cosmological manuscripts and pre-survey maps to the modern scientific cartography of the colonial era. The book is lavishly illustrated with high quality images and each of them is separately analysed with their social, cultural and political contexts in the accompanying text written by Vivek Nanda and Alex Jhonson, the renowned historians and curators of the exhibition. Except for the two maps collected from the National Museum, all maps in the book are from the Prshant Lahoti Personal Collection at the Kalakriti Archives. The book is published by the Kalakriti Archives and National Museum in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India.