This detailed mid-nineteenth-century map titled 'Johnson's British India, or Hindostan' was published by Alvin Jewett Johnson in New York for inclusion in his popular family atlases. The map provides a comprehensive view of the Indian subcontinent during the height of the British Raj, illustrating political boundaries, provinces, native states, major cities, transport routes, and geographic features across South Asia. The map extends from Afghanistan and Tibet in the north down to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and the Indian Ocean, reaching eastwards across Birmah (Burma), Siam (Thailand), and the Malay Peninsula. It includes four notable inset maps and views detailing major colonial centers: street plans of 'Madras and its Suburbs', 'The Island & Town of Bombay', and 'Calcutta', alongside an engraved landscape vignette depicting 'Government House, Calcutta'. Visually, the map features vivid hand-colored outlines distinguishing administrative regions and presidencies, surrounded by Johnson's signature elaborate geometric fretwork border. The precise engraving captures topography through hachuring, river systems, coastal soundings, and expanding railway networks crucial to British colonial administration.