# Map attribution

Title: India showing Provinces, States and Districts (70-mile map, second edition).
Creator: Survey of India, 1947. Scan metadata credits the British Library.
Local file: india-1947.jpg (original 7867 × 6491 pixels).
Retrieved: 2026-09-28.
SHA-256: b7b7cf7c5232a0175db8835794802fbd94e215178b109ebe45b75f5e8f402d67
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1947_India_showing_Provinces,_States_and_Districts_by_Survey_of_India.jpg
Download: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/1947_India_showing_Provinces%2C_States_and_Districts_by_Survey_of_India.jpg

Commons describes the work as public domain in India and flags missing US public-domain justification. Scan reproduction rights remain a release checklist item. This is a local research prototype, not a rights-cleared publication.

The map includes the Radcliffe boundary announced on 17 August 1947. It must not be described as a map of what was publicly known on 16 August. Pilot markers are manually located in image coordinates and do not assert territory extent.