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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.
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Mithapukur (then, Mettypukre) in the Dury Wall Map of Bihar and Bengal, India in 1776. The name Mithapukur also appears in the James Rennell's Dury Wall Map of Bihar and Bengal, India (as Mettypukre) and N. Hindostan Map (as Mettypokra) and John Bartholomew's Map of Provinces of the Lower Ganges (as Mitapokhar).
As Rennell proceeded to make maps, the lack of precise measurement was noticed. [1] In 1800, shortly after the Company victory over Tipu Sultan , William Lambton, an infantry soldier with experience in surveying, proposed to remedy precisely that, through a series of triangulations , initially through the newly-acquired territory of Mysore ...
Tribeni is believed to get its name from the divergence of three rivers — Kunti, Ganga and Saraswati.The probable earlier names were "Muktaveni", which distinguished it from Prayagraj, known as Yuktaveni; [3] it also featured in James Rennell's map of Bengal in 1781 where it was spelled as "Terbonee".
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 .