Agencies of British India
 Imperial entities of India | |
| Dutch India | 1605–1825 |
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| Danish India | 1620–1869 |
| French India | 1668–1954 |
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| Casa da Índia | 1434–1833 |
| Portuguese East India Company | 1628–1633 |
British India (1612–1947) | |
| East India Company | 1612–1757 |
| Company rule in India | 1757–1858 |
| British Raj | 1858–1947 |
| British rule in Burma | 1824–1948 |
| Princely states | 1721–1949 |
| Partition of India | 1947 |
An agency of British India was an internally autonomous or semi-autonomous unit of British India whose external affairs were governed by an agent designated by the Viceroy of India.[1] They varied in character from fully autonomous self-governing dependencies such as princely states, where the agent functioned mainly as a representative of the Viceroy, to tribal tracts which were integral parts of the British Empire and where the agent was completely in charge of law and order. The agent of a protected tract or princely state usually resided outside the territory in his charge, as opposed to a Resident who usually resided within his confines and was not infrequently the District Collector of the adjoining British district.
Civil and criminal justice in agencies were usually administered through locally made laws, and the Indian Penal Code was not applicable by default in these agencies.
Contents
1 List of agencies
2 See also
3 References
4 Sources and external links
List of agencies
Political agencies were created, merged or abolished at different times during the history of the British Raj.[2] This list includes all agencies, regardless of the historical period.
Aden Agency (1839 – 1859)
Alwar Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)
Baghelkhand Agency March 1871 / 1933- Baluchistan Agency
- Banas Kantha Agency
- Baroda Agency
- Baroda and Gujarat Agency
- Baroda, Western States, and Gujarat Agency
- Bengal States Agency
Bhopal Agency 1818 / 1947-08-15
Bhopawar Agency 1882 / 1925 (merged with Malwa to form Malwa and Bhopawar Agency)
Bikaner Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)
Bundelkhand Agency 1811
Central India Agency 1854- Chhattisgarh Agency
- Cutch Agency
Deccan States Agency 1930s- Delhi Agency
Eastern Rajputana States Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)
Eastern States Agency 1930s
Ganjam Hill Tracts Agency (Madras Presidency)
Gilgit Agency 1889
Kotah-Jhalawar Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)- Haraoti Agency
Haraoti-Tonk Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)- Kaira Agency
Kathiawar Agency (Bombay Presidency)- Kolaba Agency
- Kolhapur Agency
Madras States Agency 1930s
Mahi Kantha Agency (Bombay Presidency)
Malwa Agency
- 1895 / 1925 (merged with Bhopawar Agency to form 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 renamed from Malwa and Bhopawar Agency / 1934 renamed to Malwa- Nasik Agency
North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA)- North-West Frontier States Agency
Orissa Agency 1905
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
- Surat Agency
- Thana Agency
Vizagapatam Hill Tracts Agency (Madras Presidency)
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
Indian Political Service (IPS)- Subdivisions of British India
References
^ Great Britain India Office. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.
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Sources and external links
- IPS Index, First Edition - Princely States Report
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