Question

3. Fill in the blanks. 1. There was a change in the nomenclature of the subcontinent and it came to be know under British rule. and in the various regional languages.​

Answer 1

Answer:

T

ake a look at Maps 1 and 2. Map 1 was made in

1154 CE by the Arab geographer Al-Idrisi. The

section reproduced here is a detail of the Indian

subcontinent from his larger map of the world. Map 2

was made in the 1720s by a French cartographer. The

two maps are quite different even though they are of

the same area. In al-Idrisi’s map, south India is where

we would expect to find north India and Sri Lanka is

the island at the top. Place-names are marked in Arabic,