Old Reports and Documents of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India

An India-based website, www.pahar.in, has built a comprehensive collection of documents by and about the Survey of India.  The earliest reports begin in the 1820's and continue through to modern times.  

Links to the various sections of this collection are provided below.

Abstract of Reports of Surveys and other Geographical Operations in India (1869 -1878)

Account of the Operations of The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India (Vol 1 - Vol 19B)

Departmental Papers (No. 1 - No. 17)

Extracts from Narrative Reports (1900 – 1909)

General Reports on Operations of the Survey of India (1867 – 1963)

Revenue Survey General Reports (1852 – 1870)

General Reports on Operations of GTS of India (1860 – 1877)

Topographical Survey General Reports (1860 – 1877)

General Report Confidential Supplements (1924 – 1926) incomplete

Map Publication and Office Work (1927 – 1930)

Geodetic and Technical Reports (1928 – 1953)

Handbooks and Manuals (1851 – 1972)

Lists of Officers (1872 – 1945)

Lists, Tables and Catalogues (1878 – 2013)

Records of Survey of India (Vol. 1 1912 – Vol. 25 1934)

RH Phillimore and The Historical Records of the Survey of India (Vol. 1 1945 – Vol. 5 1968)

Survey of India Professional Papers (1899 – 1952)

Survey of India Technical Papers (No. 1 – No. 8)

Synopses of Results of Operations of GTS of India (Vol. 1 – Vol. 35)

Tables of Heights (1863 – 1865)

War Research Series (1946)

William Lambton papers (1802 – 1830)

Reports, articles and books published by and about the Survey of India (1822 – 2018)