"On 10 April 1802 the Great Survey of India was launched. It lasted sixty years. With the help of tens of thousands of native labourers, scholars and guides, the British carefully mapped the whole of India, marking borders, measuring distances, and even calculating for the first time the exact height of Mount Everest and other Himalayan peaks."
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Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 15: "The Marriage of Science and Empire"
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