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The Great Trigonometric Survey, which accurately measured the Indian subcontinent, was initiated by which colonial power?
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France
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- France
- Portugal
- The Netherlands
- The British Empire
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The Great Trigonometric Survey was a project of the Survey of India, established by the British East India Company in 1767, with its primary phase of geodetic measurement beginning in 1802.
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