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A shoe structure from the nursery rhyme There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

The bottom of the map provides information about the date and place of publication, which is essential when "reading" this map.

This zoomed-in version of the map allows us to compare spellings with the Arrowsmith map, thereby allowing to see the Anglicism of the original map in question.

This is another map from around the same time to look at for comparison.

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.

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