(책소개) Maps of Delhi

이 분이 들고 있는 책의 이름은 Maps of Delhi 입니다.
이 분은 모델이 아니라 이 책의 저자 Pilar Maria Guerrieri 라고 합니다.

라고 하는 신문에서 이 책 소개를 하고 있습니다.

1800년부터 2021년 델리 도시계획 프로젝트까지의 지도 61장을 가지고
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(사실 저는 이 신문이 아니라 Businesss in India 2017년 6월호에서 이 분을 알게 되었습니다
그나저나 이 신문 로고는 The Times를 완전 그대로 베꼈군요. 안 챙피한가?)

The Stories maps tell

The Indian Express 

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내용은

the use of maps on the internet or  gps is ubiquitous today – you cannot just locate places, but even plot routes, see them in close up and indeed, where permitted, see street views. it’s easy to forget that these innovations are not even a decade old, and for centuries before this, cartographers were highly prized professionals, not just for town planning, but for military and strategic purposes as well.

Maps of Delhi is a tribute to these generations of cartographers, whose meticulous labours resulted from painstaking  measurements  that made possible for administrations, and indeed armies of the day to plan ahead. as a.g.K. menon says in the foreword, “she (guerrieri) has used the maps to analyse the evolution of the city rather than merely illustrate it.”

indeed, this is where this impressive tome deserves most salutations. guerrieri, who felt the need for maps when she was researching for her ph D, collected these maps over years and finally compiled them into a chronological story how delhi emerges. for a lover of maps, or delhi, this is not a book to be skimmed through fast, but in indeed that were possible - like a film on projector, it would almost be possible to see the changing contours of delhi over the past two-odd centuries. it, for example, highlights the aspect that the city, unlike many cities globally, did not grow around any one central core, but around different points that grew at different points in their own ways.

The 61 maps here go from the early 19th century to the master plan for 2021. while there are older maps of delhi, and indeed, the rest of india, and impressive books have collated them, this book’s gaze is just on the previous two centuries. the maps in themselves are amazingly informative, even the most rudimentary ones, by what they include, and just as significantly, what they leave out. as the author points out, “a conscious effort should be made to avoid looking at the maps from a sterile or merely instrumental point of view and should be appreciated more for their symbolic significance.”

Each map is accompanied by a short introductory note, and many of them have been blown up over several pages to make reading legible! the notes not only look at the dating, sourcing, and the purposes of the map, the author has also tried to point to what to look out for in each map and even its aesthetics. a variety of maps – military, tourist, urban planning – not just bring out the practical but even the art of map-making. see map 2, sketch of the environs of delhi, 1807 or map 5, shahjahanabad, delhi around 1850. or indeed map 10, plan of the British position at delhi, 1857.

The first map here dates at the beginning of the 19th century, around the time the British reached delhi in 1803. many lesser known aspects of the city come to the fore, e.g. in map 8, Delhi 1857: A Plan of the City and its immediate surroundings, drawn in the Quarter Master General’s Office in the British Camp on the Ridge, two small crossed swords mark the location of ‘where nicholson fell’ during the anglo-maratha battle. or where each indian ‘princely state’ was accorded place in the durbar of 1911 (causing much heartburn as proximity indicated closeness and importance!) or indeed which princes failed to build on the prime property allocated to them when the new delhi was built in the 1930s (map 32). for a good part of my life, i stayed in the location that was allocated to sirohi, just behind where Bikaner house today is! 

Visually  stunning and equally informative, meticulously researched and annotated, Maps of Delhi is indeed a delight for anyone willing to trace delhi’s journeys.

https://www.outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/regulars/map-delhi-1857/