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Colonel Colin Mackenzie, the first Surveyor General of India, an employee of the East India Company, and an avid cartographer and engineer, wanted to understand Indians past to make colonial administration more effective. He made the first survey map of the ruins of the Vijayanagar Empire in the Tungabhadra-Doab region in 1800. He initially relied on oral tradition, narrations by priests of the temples of Virupaksha and the local mother goddess Pampadevi. In fact, the name Hampi was derived from Pampadevi. Epigraphic records of temple inscriptions collected since 1836 and photographs of monuments since 1856 were collated with foreign travelers? accounts recorded in Telegu, Kannada, Tamil and Sanskrit.
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