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Scripted in flowery type, the title of the map exudes Oriental exoticism.

Published in 1970, this tourism map of then Bombay was purposed to attract foreign tourists to the "Gateway of India"

A close-up showing the Legend of the map.

A close-up of the map showing Southern India, that focuses on the seal of the East India Company

Here we see Bombay with some of its neighboring lands. It's essential to dive into the use of spelling here as a method used by Arrowsmith to view India from a British lens.

An Ngram search showing that the "proper" spelling of Hindustan was alive and well in usage in British English at the time.

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