India, June 17 -- Tucked away on the second floor of the IGNCA at Janpath, a quiet but meticulous effort is underway. In a climate-controlled conservation lab, a team of experts is painstakingly restoring over a century of history - one fragile sheet of map at a time. These are the so-called Wilson Survey maps, delicate records from the colonial era that captured the walled city of Shahjahanabad in remarkable detail. More than a hundred years later, these maps are getting a new lease of life. P6

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