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Hindustan (what the country of India is often referred to as by its natives) is spelled as "Hindoostan" on this map. Even a deeper search of the word's usage around this time rendered very little evidence of this spelling.

John Arrowsmith, a famous cartographer.

A hand-drawn map of India c. 1856

Harvard Map Collection's maritime map of the Port of Mumbai

An image of Queen Victoria by Bassano, scanned from the book The National Portrait Gallery History of the Kings and Queens of England by David Williamson

Page 108 of the Victoria Regina Atlas, featuring Bombay in the bottom right corner.

This is a photograph of the first Indian National Congress in 1885, a critical step in India's struggle for independence.

This is a map of Bombay from 1893 that is also titled "The Island of Bombay," reflecting the land reclamations

This is the cover page of the Imperial Gazetteer of India, a book in which the map is published. It is the 8th edition.

John George Bartholomew is the cartographer who created this map and was a prominent map-maker during his time in Britain.