Agencies of British India

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:

• Alwar Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)
• Baghelkhand Agency March 1871 / 1933
• Baluchistan Agency
• Banas Kantha Agency
• Baroda, Western States, and Gujarat Agency
• Bhopal Agency 1818 / 1947-08-15
• Bhopawar Agency 1882 / 1925 (merge with Malwa to form Malwa and Bhopawar Agency)
• Bikaner Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)
• Bundelkhand Agency 1811
• Central India Agency 1854
• Deccan States Agency 1930s
• Eastern Rajputana States Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)
• Eastern States Agency 1930s
• Gilgit Agency 1889
• Kotah-Jhalawar Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)
• Haraoti Agency
• Haraoti-Tonk Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)
• Kathiawar Agency (Bombay Presidency)
• Kolaba Agency
• Kolhapur Agency
• Madras States Agency 1930s
• Mahi Kantha Agency (Bombay Presidency)
• Malwa Agency
  • 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 Agency (NEFA)
• North-West Frontier States Agency
• Palanpur Agency 1819 (belong to Bombay Presidency, merged 10 October 1924 in WISA)
• Poona Agency
• Punjab States Agency 1930s
• Rajputana Agency (consisting of three residencies and six agencies)
• Rewa Kantha Agency (Bombay Presidency)
• Sabar Kantha Agency
• Western India States Agency (WISA)
• Western Rajputana States Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency, part of Mewar Residency until 1906, when it was separated)

See also

• Subdivisions of British India

External links

• http://faculty.winthrop.edu/haynese/india/pstates/agencies.html