Agencies of British India
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An agency was an administrative unit of India managing the relations of British India with the sub-continent's princely states.
At one time, the list consisted of:
At one time, the list consisted of:
- Alwar Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)
- Baghelkhand Agency March 1871 / 1933
- Baluchistan AgencyBaluchistan AgencyThe Baluchistan Agency was one of the agencies of British India. Agency Territories, with an area of 44,345 square miles , composed of tracts which had, from time to time, been acquired by lease or otherwise brought under control and been placed directly under British officers.This agency consisted...
- Banas Kantha Agency
- Baroda, Western States, and Gujarat Agency
- Bhopal AgencyBhopal AgencyBhopal Agency was an administrative section of British India's Central India Agency . The Bhopal Agency was formed in 1818 at the conclusion of the Third Anglo-Maratha War , and consisted of the princely state of Bhopal , the other Princely States of :- Khilchipur , Kurwai , Narsingarh , ...
1818 / 1947-08-15 - Bhopawar AgencyBhopawar AgencyBhopawar was an sub-agency of the Central India Agency in British India with the headquarters at the town of Bhopawar , so the name . Bhopawar Agency was created in 1882 from a number of princely states in the Western Nimar and Southern Malwa regions of Central India , which included :-# Dhar.#*...
1882 / 1925 (merge with Malwa to form Malwa and Bhopawar Agency) - Bikaner Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)
- Bundelkhand AgencyBundelkhand AgencyThe Marathas ceded parts of Bundelkhand, which were later called later British Bundelkhand, to the British in the 1802 Treaty of Bassein. After 1802, many of the local rulers were granted sanads by the British, which entitled them to the lands they controlled at the death of Ali Bahadur, in return...
1811 - Central India AgencyCentral India AgencyThe Central India Agency was a political office of the British Indian Empire, which covered the northern half of present-day Madhya Pradesh state. The Central India Agency was made up entirely of princely states, which were under native rulers...
1854 - Deccan States AgencyDeccan States AgencyThe Deccan States Agency was a unit of British India exercising suzerainty over a number of princely states. The agency was created in the 1930s, and was composed of a number of princely states in western India, located in the present-day Indian states of Maharashtra and Karnataka...
1930s - Eastern Rajputana States Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)
- Eastern States AgencyEastern States AgencyThe Eastern States Agency was a political office of the British Indian Empire, created on 1 April 1933. This agency dealt with forty-two princely states in eastern India, located in the present-day Indian states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal, and Tripura...
1930s - Gilgit AgencyGilgit AgencyThe Gilgit Agency was a political unit of British India, which administered the northern half of the Princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. The Gilgit Agency was created in 1877 and was overseen by a political agent of the Governor-General of British India. The seat of the agent was Srinagar...
1889 - Kotah-Jhalawar Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)
- Haraoti Agency
- Haraoti-Tonk Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)
- Kathiawar AgencyKathiawar AgencyThe Kathiawar Agency, on the Kathiawar peninsula in the western part of the Indian subcontinent, was a political unit of some 200 small princely states under the suzerainty of the Bombay Presidency of British India. Soon after India's independence in 1947, all but one of them acceded to the new...
(Bombay Presidency) - Kolaba Agency
- Kolhapur Agency
- Madras States AgencyMadras States AgencyThe Madras States Agency was an administrative unit of British India. The agency was created in the 1930s, on the model of the Central India Agency and Rajputana Agency, and was composed of five princely states in southern India, located in the present-day Indian states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and...
1930s - Mahi Kantha Agency (Bombay Presidency)
- Malwa AgencyMalwa AgencyMalwa Agency was an administrative section of British India's Central India Agency . The Malwa Agency was formed in 1895 out of princely states in the Northern Malwa region formerly under the authority of the British agent for Indore...
- 1895 / 1925 (merge with Bhopawar Agency to Malwa and Bhopawar Agency)
- 1934 / 1947
- Malwa and Bhopawar Agency 1925 / 1927 rename to Malwa and Southern States Agency
- Malwa and Southern States Agency 1927 rename from Malwa and Bhopawar Agency / 1934 rename to Malwa
- North-East Frontier AgencyNorth-East Frontier AgencyThe North-East Frontier Agency was one of the political divisions in British India and later the Republic of India till 1972, when it became the Union Territory of Arunachal Pradesh...
(NEFA) - North-West Frontier States AgencyNorth-West Frontier States AgencyNorth-West Frontier States Agency was one of the agencies of British India.It comprised the Princely States associated with the North-West Frontier Province, ....
- Palanpur AgencyPalanpur AgencyPalanpur Agency was a former collection of native states in what is now northern Gujarat, India.Established in 1819, the Agency was under the political control of the Bombay Presidency until 10 October 1924, from which date it was merged into the Western India States Agency and placed under the...
1819 (belong to Bombay Presidency, merged 10 October 1924 in WISA) - Poona Agency
- Punjab States AgencyPunjab States AgencyThe Punjab States Agency was a political office of the British Indian Empire. The agency was created in the 1930s, on the model of the Central India Agency and Rajputana Agency, and dealt with forty princely states in northwest India formerly dealt with by the british province of the Punjab...
1930s - Rajputana AgencyRajputana AgencyThe Rajputana Agency was a political office of the British Indian Empire dealing with a collection of native states in India , under the political charge of an Agent reporting directly to the Governor-General of India and residing at Mount Abu in the Aravalli Range...
(consisting of three residencies and six agencies) - Rewa Kantha Agency (Bombay Presidency)
- Sabar Kantha Agency
- Western India States AgencyWestern India States AgencyThe Western India States Agency was one of the agencies of the princely states of British India. This agency was formed on October 10, 1924 as a part of the implementation of the Montague Chelmsford report on constitutional reforms. It was formed by merging the areas under the erstwhile Kathiawar,...
(WISA) - Western Rajputana States Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency, part of Mewar ResidencyMewar ResidencyMewar Residency was a residency of British India, during the British Raj, which was one of the three residencies of the Rajputana Agency, and had its headquarters at Udaipur, and included the state of Mewar...
until 1906, when it was separated)