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.
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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,
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