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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
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.
