#Paint the town red maps series#

With sorrow and with shame, we declare our belief that the very class which, some little time ago, was denouncing the indifference of the governing authorities to the welfare of the people, is now exerting itself to alienate from the people the hearts of their English masters.

But that which the imputed mal-administration of the East India Company has not effected, the conduct, in this present conjuncture, of the most vehement accusers of the Company is going far to effect. If the multitudes had risen against us, we must have been swept into the sea. It is a source of unbounded gratitude that, up to the present time, the hearts of the people at large have not been turned against us. How little, for some time past, has been said or written about the feelings of the people of India? But our Indian fellow-subjects are not merely to be viewed in the concrete as so much area of red on the map of India. It matters greatly whether this day ten years India is a dependency of England or Russia. The question of the future government of India has degenerated so much into a question of party that a large number of our countrymen, we are afraid, have forgotten that the question really to be solved is whether it will affect beneficially or injuriously the great mass of the people of India. Context: The Indian Rebellion of 1857 led to the Government of India Act 1858, passed on Monday 2 nd August 1858, which put an end to the rule of the East India Company on India, and transferred the task of administering India to the British Government: The earliest occurrences of the phrases red, or pink, on the map, and to paint the map red, or pink, and variants, that I have found are as follows, in chronological order:ġ-: From The Express (London, England) of Thursday 22 nd April 1858: As regards Africa, the shade of pink which extends across the Soudan requires some explanation, as it might otherwise lead the student to believe that all the area so coloured was under British influence, beside which, the colouring is inconsistent with that of the general map of Africa given on sheet 34. Sheets 6 and 7 contain a commercial map of the world, on which the extent of the British Empire is shown in red. The first five are occupied by astronomical diagrams and physical maps. This atlas contains in all fifty-four sheets of well-executed maps.

#Paint the town red maps series#

A series of fifty-four maps, illustrating physical, political, commercial, and classical geography.

Coles, Map Curator at the Royal Geographical Society, mentioned that colour in the following review, published in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography (London: Edward Stanford) of May 1891:īartholomew, J.

The phrases red, or pink, on the map, and to paint the map red, or pink, and variants, alluded to the colour that was used to represent British colonies and dominions on maps. ( Note: The British-English phrase to paint the map red is unrelated to the American-English phrase to paint the town red. – to paint the map red, or pink, and its variants, meant to expand the territory of the British Empire. – red, or pink, on the map, and its variants, referred to the colonies and dominions of the British Empire