Question
J & C Walker, the firm that made the first map of
Indian railways, was the official mapmakers of which company?Solution
J & C. Walker, the official mapmakers to the British East India Company (EIC). The Walker firm grafted Stephenson's plotted proposed route of the railway onto one of its own existing general topographical maps depicting Central and Northern India, and printed the present bespoke map.
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