The Punjab States Agency was a political office of the British Indian Empire

British Raj

British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...

. The agency was created in the 1930s, on the model of the Central India Agency

Central India Agency

The 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...

 and Rajputana Agency

Rajputana Agency

The 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...

, and dealt with forty princely states in northwest India formerly dealt with by the british province of the Punjab. The Punjab Hill States Agency was created out of it in 1936.

After 1947, most of the states chose to accede

Instrument of Accession

The Instrument of Accession was a legal document created in 1947 to enable each of the rulers of the princely states under British suzerainty to join one of the new dominions of India or Pakistan created by the Partition of British India.-Background:...

 to the Union of India, the rest to the Dominion of Pakistan

Dominion of Pakistan

The Dominion of Pakistan was an independent federal Commonwealth realm in South Asia that was established in 1947 on the partition of British India into two sovereign dominions . The Dominion of Pakistan, which included modern-day Pakistan and Bangladesh, was intended to be a homeland for the...

.

Princely states of the Punjab States Agency

• Bahawalpur
  Bahawalpur
  Bahawalpur , located in the province of Punjab, is the twelfth largest city in Pakistan. The city was once the capital of the former princely state of Bahawalpur. The city was home to various Nawabs and counted as part of the Rajputana states...
  
  
• Bilaspur
  Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh
  Bilaspur is a city and a municipal council in Bilaspur district in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India.-Geography:Bilaspur is located at . It has an average elevation of 673 metres . It is hot in summer and cold in winters. It rains mostly in July to august .It lies near the reservoir of...
  
   (Kahlur
  Kahlur
  Kahlur , covering an area of 1173 km², and currently a part of Himachal Pradesh state, was one of the Princely states of India during the period of the British Raj. The state was founded in/around 697 by Kahal Chand. Kahal Chand had built a fort, which was named after him, and was called...
  
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• Chamba
  Chamba, Himachal Pradesh
  Chamba is an ancient town in the Chamba district in the state of Himachal Pradesh, in northern India. According to the 2001 Indian census, Chamba has a population of 20,312 people...
  
  
• Faridkot
  Faridkot State
  Faridkot State, with its capital at Faridkot, was a Princely state of Punjab. The state was established in 1763, ruled by a Jatt Sikh Brar dynasty and was an offspring of Kotkapura. Faridkot was occupied by Ranjit Singh of Sikh Empire in 1803 but had to be returned to the former rulers in 1807 on...
  
  
• Jind
  Jind
  Jind is a town in Jind District, Harayana state, India.It is one of the oldest districts of Harayana. It is one of the first Sikh Kingdoms. It lies in central Haryana and is the fourth district of the Jat belt .The city is beautiful...
  
  
• Kapurthala
• Khairpur
  Khairpur
  Khairpur is the twelfth largest city in the province of Sindh in southeast Pakistan. It was founded in 1783 by Mir Sohrab Khan, who established the Khairpur branch of the Talpur clan. The settlement was selected as the seat of the Mirs of northern Sindh. It is the capital of the modern Khairpur...
  
  
• Loharu
  Loharu
  Loharu is a city and a municipal committee in Bhiwani district in the Indian state of Haryana. It is the administrative headquarters of one of the 4 administrative sub-divisions of the district which comprises 119 villages....
  
  
• Maler Kotla
• Mandi
• Nabha
  Nabha
  Nabha is a city and municipal council in the Patiala district to the south-west of the Indian state of Punjab. In 1998, the annual income of Nabha state was Rs 1,50,000/-.- Princely State of Nabha :...
  
  
• Patiala
• Nahan
  Nahan
  Nahan नाहन is a town in Himachal Pradesh in India and is the headquarters of the Sirmaur District.- Geography :Nahan is located at . It has an average elevation of 920 metre- Demographics :...
  
  
• Suket
  Suket
  Suket is a census town in Kota district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.-Geography:Suket is located at . It has an average elevation of 320 metres .-Demographics:...
  
  

• Kangra

• Jaswan
  Jaswan
  Jaswan was a precolonial Indian state centred at Rajpura, in modern-day Himachal Pradesh. It was founded in 1170 by Raja Purab Chand, a scion of the ancient royal family of Kangra. It remained a bastion of the Sikh Empire for most of its history....
  
  

• Guler
  Haripur Guler
  Haripur is a township in Kangra district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Haripur Guler are twin townships carrying the heritage of Guler Riyasat...
  
  
• Siba
  Siba
  Siba or SIBA may refer to:Places:*Šiba, a village in Bardejov district of northeast Slovakia**Siba State, an erstwhile princely state in Punjab, in modern India.Siba was an independent territory directly ruled by Sibaia Clan Rulers up to 1947 and never annexed with British Government.It was simply...
  
  

• Datarpur
• Kutlehar

Princely states of the Simla Hill States Superintendency of the Punjab States Agency

• Baghal
  Baghal
  Baghal, covering an area of 312 km² and currently a part of Himachal Pradesh state, was one of the Princely states of India during the period of the British Raj...
  
  
• Baghat
  Baghat
  Baghat was a princely state of the British Raj, located in modern-day Himachal Pradesh. It constituted one of the Simla Hill States. It consisted of three separate parts which were almost entirely surrounded by the larger Patiala territory. The largest part comprised approximately , extending...
  
  
• Balsan
• Bashahr
  Bashahr
  Bashahr was a princely state in pre-independence India, located in the hilly western Himalaya promontory in the northern part of colonial Punjab that is now the Indian republic's state of Himachal Pradesh and traversed by the Sutlej river...
  
  
• Bhajji
• Bija
  Bija
  In Hinduism and Buddhism, the Sanskrit term बीज bīja , literally seed, is used as a metaphor for the origin or cause of things and cognate with bindu....
  
  
• Darkoti
• Dhami
  Dhami
  Dhami, also known as Halog, was a Princely State in India and a part of one of the Punjab Hill States. In 1941 it had an area of and a population of 5,114 people. In 1948 Dhami was made a part of Himachal Pradesh....
  
  
• Jubbal
  Jubbal
  Jubbal is a town and a nagar panchayat in Shimla district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.-Geography:Jubbal, located at has an average elevation of 1901 metres ....
  
  
• Keonthal
  Keonthal
  Keonthal, covering an area of 482 km², was one of the Princely states of India during the period of the British Raj. It acceded to India on 15 April 1948. Currently, it is part of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.-External links:*...
  
  
• Kumharsain
• Kunihar
  Kunihar
  Kunihar is a valley situated between the mountains in the Solan district, which is also known as "Hatkot" and "Choti Vilayat." It was named "Kunihar" by Rajiv Gandhi, when he found a small valley, surrounded by a small river in shape of garland so he named it "Kunihar" during his visit.-Location...
  
  
• Kuthar
• Mahlog
  Mahlog
  Mahlog or Mailog was a princely state of India. In 1940 it had a population of 8,631 and an area of . The capital city was Patta.In 1948 Mahlog was merged into the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh....
  
  
• Mangal
  Mangal
  Mangal is the name for Turkish barbecue. In a more social context, it resembles braai of South Africa.Mangal is popular in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Israel, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and countries in the Levant...
  
  
• Mawiang
• Mawsynram
  Mawsynram
  Mawsynram is a village in the East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya state in north-eastern India, 56 kilometers from Shillong. It is reportedly the wettest place on Earth, with an annual rainfall of...
  
  
• Nalagarh
  Nalagarh
  #REDIRECT Target page nameNalagarh is a city and a municipal committee in Solan district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It was the seat of the eponymous princely state during the British Raj, and known in medieval period as the state of Hindur. It was founded by the Chandella Rajputs in...
  
   (Hindur)
• Sangri
  Sangri
  Sangri may refer to:*Sangri County, county in Tibet*Sangri , village in Tibet*The pod of the tree Prosopis cineraria is known as Sangari in Rajasthani language....
  
  
• Tharoch