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The Surveyor General of India is the Head of Department of Survey of India, a department under the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Government of India. The Surveyor General is also the most senior member of the Survey of India Service, an organised engineering service under the Union of India.

The current Surveyor General is Hitesh Kumar S Makwana.

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Surveyor General of India

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The Surveyor General of India is the Head of Department of Survey of India, a department under the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Government...

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Survey of India

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Services of India. It is headed by the Surveyor General of India. At present, the Surveyor General is Hitesh Kumar S. Makwana. The history of the Survey of India...

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George Everest

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July 1790 – 1 December 1866) was a British surveyor and geographer who served as Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843. After receiving a military...

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Colin Mackenzie

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India Company who later became the first Surveyor General of India. He was a collector of antiquities and an orientalist. He surveyed southern India,...

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Andrew Scott Waugh

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Major General Sir Andrew Scott Waugh (3 February 1810 – 21 February 1878) was a British army officer and Surveyor General of India who worked in the Great...

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Dehradun

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Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology and the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing. It is the headquarters of the Surveyor-General of India. According to the...

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Mussoorie

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terminus of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India that began at the southern tip of the country. Although unsuccessful, the Surveyor General of India at the...

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Churdhar Sanctuary

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sightings of the Himalaya mountains around 1834. He was the Surveyor General of India and did the initial survey of the full length of India as well as...

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Mount Everest

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Peak XV should be named after British surveyor Sir George Everest, his predecessor as Surveyor General of India. Everest himself opposed the honor, and...

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Geoffrey Hinton

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another relative, George Everest, the Surveyor General of India after whom the mountain is named. He is the nephew of the economist Colin Clark. Geoffrey...

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Oliver Wheeler

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the British Army he was appointed Surveyor General of India in 1941. He was knighted for the work he did surveying India. He was an accomplished mountain...

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Stornoway

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Malcolm Mackay - Scottish crime writer Colin Mackenzie - first Surveyor-General of India Donny MacLeod (Donny B) - former TV presenter on Pebble Mill Ken...

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Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier

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and the Surveyor General of India from 1887 to 1895. Thuillier was the son of Henry Edward Landor Thuillier, also Surveyor General of India. His mother...

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James Rennell

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India and served as Surveyor General of Bengal. Rennell has been called the Father of Oceanography. In 1830, he was one of the founders of the Royal Geographical...

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Henry Edward Landor Thuillier

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FRS (10 July 1813 – 6 May 1906) was Surveyor General of India. Under his direction, 796,928 square miles of India were surveyed, including difficult mountainous...

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St George Corbet Gore

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and Surveyor General of India from 1899 to 1904. Gore was born on 24 February 1849, the son of Rev. William Francis Gore, a male-line descendant of the...

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Radhanath Sikdar

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of Mount Everest. He was the first person to calculate the height of Mount Everest, in 1852. In 1831, George Everest, the Surveyor General of India,...

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South Park Street Cemetery

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Valentine Blacker (1778-1826), Surveyor General of India Sir John Hadley D'Oyly, 6th Baronet (1754–1818), politician Major-General Charles Stuart (1758–1828)...

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Quantity surveyor

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quantity surveyors are known as Chartered Surveyors (Members and Fellows of RICS) in the UK and Certified Quantity Surveyors (a designation of the Australian...

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Hampi

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British influence. The ruins of Hampi were surveyed in 1800 by Scottish Colonel Colin Mackenzie, first Surveyor General of India. Mackenzie wrote that the...

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Sidney Gerald Burrard

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served as Surveyor General of India and played a major role in the Great Trigonometrical Survey's work in the Himalayas and identified the source of errors...

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Trevelin

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School No.18, Trevelin on 30 April of that year. The British arbiter was Sir Thomas Holdich (King's Surveyor General of India) whilst the interested parties...

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Geography of Arunachal Pradesh

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Retrieved 21 July 2021. Published under Dr Swarna Subba Rao, Surveyor General of India Frank Ludlow. "Eastern Himalaya 1940" (PDF). claudearpi.net. Archived...

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Valentine Blacker

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was a lieutenant colonel in the Honourable East India Company and later Surveyor General of India. Blacker was born in Armagh, Northern Ireland where...

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Clan Mackenzie

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(1754–1821) was Surveyor General of India, and an art collector and orientalist. He produced many of the first accurate maps of India, and his research...

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