<p>Zoom into <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://maps.bpl.org/id/19950">this map</a> at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://maps.bpl.org">maps.bpl.org</a>.
</p><p>Author: Rennell, James
Publisher: Rennell, James
Date: 1782
Location: South Asia
</p><p>Dimensions: 78 x 79 cm
Scale: Scale approximately 1:4,450,000
Call Number: G1015 .A85 1783
The depiction is described by Rennell as:
</p>
<p>
Brittannia receiving into her Protection, the sacred Books of the Hindoos, presented by the Pundits, or Learned Bramins: in Allusion to the humane Interposition of the British Legislature in Favor of the Natives of Bengal, in the Year 1781. Brittannia is supported by a Pedestal, on which are engraven the Victories, by means of which the British Nation obtained, and has hitherto upheld, its Influence in India: amongst which, the two recent ones of Porto Novo and Sholingur, gained by General [Eyre] Coote, are particularly pointed out by a Sepoy to his Comrade
</p>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:James_Rennell" class="extiw" title="w:en:James Rennell"><span title="English geographer, historian and oceanographer (1742–1830)">James Rennell</span></a>
</bdi>
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/normanbleventhalmapcenter/20118721954/">Hindoostan</a>