Eastern States Agency

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The Eastern States Agency was an administrative unit of British India. The agency was created in the 1930's, and was composed of a number of princely states in eastern India, located in the present-day Indian states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal, and Tripura. Before the creation of the Eastern States Agency, the states were under the authority of the British provinces of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, and the Central Provinces and Berar. Cooch Behar and Tripura were transferred from Bengal to the Eastern States Agency in 1936, and the Orissa Tributary States and Chhota Nagpur States were transferred from Bihar and Orissa in 1936. After Indian Independence in 1947, the states acceded to the Government of India, and were integrated into the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, and Orissa. The eastern portion of Madhya Pradesh and the southern portion of Bihar became the states of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, respectively, in 2001.

[edit] Princely states of the Eastern States Agency

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