Malwa Agency
| Malwa Agency | |||||||||||
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| Sub-agencyof theCentral India Agency | |||||||||||
| 1895–1947 | |||||||||||
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| • Coordinates | 24°02′N75°05′E/ 24.03°N 75.08°E | ||||||||||
• 1881 | 31,000 km2(12,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
• 1881 | 1,511,324 | ||||||||||
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• Abolition of the Western Malwa Agency | 1895 | ||||||||||
• Merger intoMadhya Bharat | 1947 | ||||||||||
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Malwa Agencywas an administrative section ofBritish India'sCentral India Agency.The headquarters of the political agent was atNeemuch(Nimach).[1]The other chief towns of the region were:RatlamandJaora.[2]
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History
[edit]The Malwa Agency was formed in 1895 out ofprincely statesin the NorthernMalwaregion formerly under the authority of the British agent forIndoreand the abolition of the Western Malwa Agency which had been a sub-agency of the Central India Agency since 1854.[3]
TheDewas States(Dewas Senior&Dewas Junior) were added to Malwa Agency in 1907. In 1925 Malwa Agency was amalgamated withBhopawar Agencyto form theMalwa and Bhopawar Agency,renamed theMalwa and Southern States Agencyin 1927. The Dewas States were transferred toBhopal Agencyin 1931, and in 1934 the agency was once again renamed Malwa Agency.
AfterIndian independencein 1947, the rulers of these states acceded to theGovernment of Indiaand were amalgamated into the new Indian state ofMadhya Bharat.Madhya Bharat was merged intoMadhya Pradeshstate on 1 November 1956.
Princely states and estates
[edit]The agency included:
Salute states,by precedence:
- Ratlam State,title Maharaja Bahadur, Hereditary salute of 13-guns (15 local)
- Jaora State,title Nawab, Hereditary salute of 13-guns
- Sailana State,title Raja Bahadur, Hereditary salute of 11-guns
- Jhabua State,title Raja, Hereditary salute of 11-guns
- Sitamau State,title Raja, Hereditary salute of 11-guns
Non-salute states:
- Piploda State,title Rao (originally Thakur)
- Panth-PiplodaEstate.
Furthermore, it covered certain portions of -Gwalior State Indore State,Tonk State&Dewas States(Senior & Junior) territories
References
[edit]- ^Chisholm, Hugh,ed. (1911)..Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 518.
- ^Great Britain India Office.The Imperial Gazetteer of India.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.
- ^Sir William Wilson Hunter.The Imperial Gazetteer of India.London: Trübner & co., 1885.