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India Study Abroad Research Tutorial

Introduction  |   Getting to Know India  |   Conducting Research in India   |   Accessing UNC's Resources Abroad  

Geography and Maps

Maps and atlases are great tools for getting a feel for the landscape and geographic borders of your area. Many geographical resources are available to you at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Maps in Print Map of India's states

A wide range of maps can be found in the Maps Collection on the lower level of Wilson Library. The Undergraduate Library and Davis Library have many types of atlases, including international and historic. They are on atlas cases in each library's reference section. A few useful atlases are:

An Atlas of India. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Davis Library Reference G2280 .A853 1990

Johnson, Gordon, Ph.D. Cultural Atlas of India: India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. New York: Facts on File, 1996.
Undergraduate Library Folio DS421 .J6 1996

National Geographic Atlas of the World. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society.
Undergrad Library Reference G1021 .N38 1999
Davis Library Reference G1021 .N38 1996

Oxford Atlas of the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Undergrad Library Reference G1021 .A7545 2003
Davis Library Reference G1021 .A7545 2004

Maps Online

The University of Chicago's Digital South Asia Library contains specialized maps, including historical and topographic maps. You can access the web site directly, or reach it through through the UNC-Chapel Hill libraries' article databases.

For an extensive collection of online international maps, search the University of Texas's Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. Here you can find maps of India.

Need driving directions from Bhopal to Pondicherry? Map My India generates local maps and driving directions in the spirit of Mapquest.

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