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Major James Rennell FRS FRSE FRGS (3 December 1742 – 29 March 1830) was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography.Rennell produced some of the first accurate maps of Bengal at one inch to five miles as well as accurate outlines of India and served as Surveyor General of Bengal.
With the acquisition of new territory, it employed several explorers and cartographers to provide maps and other information on its territories, most notably James Rennell, from 1767 in Bengal. As Rennell proceeded to make maps, the lack of precise measurement was noticed. [1]
James Rennell: Other versions: This file has been extracted from another file: 1776 Rennell - Dury Wall Map of Bihar and Bengal, India - Geographicus ...
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Map number two of James Rennell's 1779 Bengal Atlas has the title "Jungleterry District", [2] but the name 'Jungle Terry' itself does not show on the map. Bishop Reginald Heber comments that the "Jungleterry" district is very fertile and that theft, murder and highway robberies are a rare occurrence in it. [4]
James Rennell's 1776 map shows the eastern boundary of the British controlled regions before 1824. Following the Battle of Plassey (1757), the East India Company received the Diwani of Bengal in 1765 from the Mughals, and with it a major part of the Goalpara region. The northern part, called the eastern Duars were still with Bhutan.
James Rennell's 1776 map shows the eastern boundary of the British controlled regions before 1824 Colonial Assam (1826–1947) refers to the period in the history of Assam between the signing of the Treaty of Yandabo and the Independence of India when Assam was under British colonial rule .