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Page 108 of the Victoria Regina Atlas, featuring Bombay in the bottom right corner.
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
Harvard Map Collection's maritime map of the Port of Mumbai
A hand-drawn map of India c. 1856
John Arrowsmith, a famous cartographer.
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.
An Ngram search showing that the "proper" spelling of Hindustan was alive and well in usage in British English at the time.
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.