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French maps and drawings of ancient India to be exhibited
The Embassy of France in collaboration with the National Museum and the Alliance Francaise and the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad are going to exhibit for the first time, an exceptional collection of French maps and drawings of 18th century cities and monuments of India. The exhibition will be on from December 18, 2000 to January 21, 2001 at the National Museum, New Delhi. This will includes 42 drawings and maps from the Centre des Archives d'Outre-Mer, made in the 18th century by French cartographers.
One would be able to see map drawings of the Danish port city of Trinquebar in 1778, Dutch fort and city of Negapatnam of 1778, plan of Pondicherry in 1702-3. Plans of other cities and monuments on view will include Surat, Mumbai, Mangalore, Cochin, Srirangapattanam, Chandranagar, Fort William, Konkan, Deccan, Delhi and Lucknow. In addition, five drawings from the Gentil (one of the first Europeans to introduce Indian civilisation to the west) collection, kept in the "Bibliotheque Nationale" will be exhibited. Also, drawings of the palace of Nizam-ul-Mulk at Delhi, the palace built in Old Delhi by Salim Shah used as a prison for Mughal princes and Mahtab Bagh, a garden made by Aurangzeb for his wives inside Red Fort would be exhibited.
The National Geographic Institute has recovered some cartographic instruments of that era. Six such instruments will also be shown.
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