In India, mapping during the early 17th century focused much on the polity of the Mughal Empire. Those maps emphasised the seat of Mughal power in the northern plains and showed the Mughal territories west of the Indus, especially Punjab, the Hindu Kush, and occasionally Afghanistan, but the peninsula was omitted. The southward expansion of Mughal power under Aurangazeb (reigned 1658- 1707) in the late 17th century led to the merging of the two regional framings in the early 18th century; the European cartographers extended their maps of the empire to incorporate the peninsula. History of Maps Mapping the Maps : 1600-1700 AD http://www.gisdevelopment.net/history/1600-1700.htm --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India