[INDOLOGY] INDOLOGY Digest, Vol 1588, Issue 1

Sat May 23 14:55:05 UTC 2026

Colleagues,

My late husband, John C. Huntington, drew many original maps of Asia, including early South Asia. Most of the maps are posted on the web site for our photographic archive. The archive home page can be found at https://huntingtonarchive.org/ and the maps can be found under the Educational Resources tab. The maps are currently being proofread and updated. If you wish to use any of the maps in a publication, please let me know. We will be happy to make any corrections you might need before publication and I can provide you with the needed permission.

Best wishes,

Susan Huntington

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> Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 08:03:15 -0400
> From: Divya Kumar-Dumas <dk4338 at nyu.edu>
> To: "Whitaker, Jarrod" <whitakjl at wfu.edu>
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> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Maps of Ancient India
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> Dear Jarrod, 
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> For A?oka, I would ask to republish the recently published "Map of Ashokan inscription sites and geographical names" by Pankaj Chakraborty of Kolkata in Patrick Olivelle, Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King (Yale, 2023), xxxii. It is well drawn and labeled but quite small in the book (so difficult to read) and deserves a second chance to be seen. Mapping inscription sites avoids taking a position on debates about the extent vs. porosity of Ashoka?s empire.  
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> For Ancient India, I would look at the numismatic maps presented in the work of Joe Cribbs or Wilfried Piper. I don?t have the material on hand to give you a page number. Numismatic evidence is the clearest way to map pre-Ashokan South Asia. You might also check in with MAHSA (Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia) <https://www.mahsa.arch.cam.ac.uk/> to see if they can lend a hand with the data they have collected, largely by digitizing much later maps, if I understand correctly. 
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> All best, 
> Divya
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> Divya Kumar-Dumas, PhD <https://arthistory.umd.edu/directory/divya-kumar-dumas>
> President?s Postdoctoral Fellow: South Asian and Global Art & Architecture, Art History, and Archaeology
> Department of Art History & Archaeology  
> University of Maryland
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> Research Associate | Institute?for?the?Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), NYU <https://isaw.nyu.edu/people/affiliates/research-associates/divya-kumar-dumas>
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>> On May 22, 2026, at 4:40?AM, tiziana.lorenzetti--- via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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>> Dear Jarrod, 
>> the recent volume Splendori dell'India / Splendours of India (Rome 2026, ed. Sabinae) contains reproductions of ancient maps of India, dating back to the 15th/16th century. I don't know if the maps you're looking for are in the book. However, many are rare and never published.
>> Best wishes, 
>> Tiziana Lorenzetti
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>> ps If you want more info, please, email me off list (tiziana.lorenzetti at libero.it <mailto:tiziana.lorenzetti at libero.it>)
>>> Il 21/05/2026 17:48 CEST Whitaker, Jarrod via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> ha scritto: 
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>>> Dear Colleagues
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>>> I'm in need of two maps of 1) "Ancient India," and 2) "Mauryan Empire under A?oka" for a chapter on "Warfare in Ancient India" (forthcoming Cambridge History of War). One of the editors passed away unexpectedly a few year ago and we cannot identify the sources of the maps he produced for my chapter.
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>>> If you have high quality maps and would let me use or reproduce them (with explicit email permission), I would be externally grateful (and acknowledge you in the chapter). Or can you point me to a public source. I can't see anything in WikiCommons. 
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>>> Please email me off-list!
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>>> Cheers
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>>> Jarrod
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