Why were surveys carried out under the British rule in India?
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Answer:
Detailed surveys were carried out by theBritish to map all of India, and revenuesurveys (to decide how much tax was to be collected from where) were conducted invillages in order to know the topography, the quality of soil, flora, fauna, cropping patterns, etc.
Explanation:
Great Trigonometrical Survey (1802–1852) was started by British surveyor Col. William Lambton on 10 April 1802 from St. Thomas Mount in Chennai to foothills of Himalayas. 36 inch huge half ton weight Theodolite was used, which took 57 days to measure the 12-km base line.
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the British belived that a country had to be properly known before it could be effectively administered .therefore by the early nineteenth century detailed survey were being carried out the map the entire country
*they conducted revenue surveys in villages
*they made effects to know the topography ,the soil quality ,the flore,the fauna, the local historians and the cropping pattern
*they also introduced census operation ,held at the interval of every ten years from the end of the 19th century .they prepared details records of the number of people in all the province of India ,nothing information on caste, religion,and occupation separately.
*the British also carried on several other surveys such as botanical surveys , zoological surveys archaeological survey,forest surveys ,etc.in this way they gathered all the facts that were essential for administering a country.