Leonard Munn

Capt. Leonard Munn OBE
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Born	1878
Died	1935
Residence	c/o E.H. Hunt, Lallaguda, PO, Secunderabad, Deccan Geological Survey, PO Lingsuggur, Raichur District, Hyderabad [1929]
Occupation	engineer map maker
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1935 deceased elected_AI 1925.04.21

Notes

House Notes

1925.03.24 proposed by E.H. Hunt, seconded by C.G. Seligman
death noted in Report of the Council 1935-1936

Notes From Elsewhere

Leonard Munn maps are the holy grail for cartographic and social research on Hyderabad

Leonard Munn and His Wells in the Erstwhile Raichur Doab (Groundwater studies) by Brian Chadwick

The Munn Maps are a set of 550 maps of Hyderabad in the Kalakriti Archive. These maps were commissioned by the Nizam of Hyderabad in 1908 after the devastating floods in the city. The project was undertaken under the supervision of Leonard Munn (1878-1935), an engineer, who was the chief inspector of the mines under the Nizam regime. Others who assisted Munn, were A.F. Chinoy as assistant and A.T. Mackenzie as chief engineer from the P.W.D. The maps are precious as they are in a great detail with names of streets, landmarks, and even names of residents who appeared prominently on the map. In total 848 maps were created by the Hyderabad municipal survey during 1912-1915 out of which 550 are in the Kalakriti Archive. These maps are a window into the history of the Hyderabad and its localities. The richly detailed maps give an extremely important account of the urbanity and how it developed in the early 20th Century.

Publications

External Publications

Hyderabad Municipal Survey