Eastern States Agency
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Capital | Ranchi | ||||||||||||
States under AGG for Eastern States |
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Government | Indirect imperial rule over a group of hereditary monarchies | ||||||||||||
Agent to the Governor-General | |||||||||||||
• 1933 (first) | E.C. Gibson, ICS[1] | ||||||||||||
Historical era | Accession to the Indian Union | 1948 | |||||||||||
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1936 | 154,570 km2 (59,680 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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The Eastern States Agency was an agency or grouping of
History
Since the 19th century the
The Eastern States Agency was created on 1 April 1933. This agency dealt with forty-two princely states in eastern India, located in the present-day Indian states of
The Agent reported to the
Cooch Behar and Tripura were transferred from Bengal Province to the Eastern States Agency on 1 November 1936.[citation needed]
On 1 December 1944, the status of this agency was raised to that of a first class residency. These states were grouped into three political agencies, under the "Resident" in Calcutta. The headquarters of the Orissa States Agency was at Sambalpur, the headquarters of the Chhattisgarh States Agency was at Raipur and the headquarters of the Bengal States Agency was at Calcutta. After the withdrawal of the British from India in 1947, the states acceded to the new Union of India and some of the states formed the Eastern States Union, an organisation that failed.[4] Later they were integrated into the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Orissa.[5] The eastern portion of Madhya Pradesh and the southern portion of Bihar became the states of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, respectively, in November 2000.
Link to the Map of Eastern States Agency
Princely states of the Eastern States Agency
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Orissa States Agency
Salute states, by precedence :
- Kalahandi, title HH Maharaja, Hereditary salute of 9-guns
- Mayurbhanj, title HH Maharaja, Hereditary salute of 9-guns
- Patna, title HH Maharaja, Hereditary salute of 9-guns
- Sonepur, title HH Maharaja, Hereditary salute of 9-guns
Non-salute states, alphabetically :
- Athgarh, title Raja
- Athmallik, title Raja
- Bamra, title Raja
- Baramba, title Rawat
- Baudh, title Raja
- Bonai, title Raja
- Daspalla, title Raja
- Dhenkanal, title Raja (from 1869 Maharaja)
- Gangpur, title Raja
- Hindol, title Raja
- Keonjhar, title Raja
- Khandpara, title Raja
- Kharsawan, title Thakur (from 1907 Raja)
- Nayagarh, title Raja
- Narsinghpur, title Raja
- Nilgiri, title Raja
- Pal Lahara, title Raja
- Rairakhol, title Raja
- Ranpur, title Raja
- Saraikela (Seraikela), title Kunwar (from 1884 Raja)
- Talcher, title Raja
- Tigiria, title Raja
Chhattisgarh States Agency
Only non-salute states :
- Bastar, title Raja (from 1936 Maharaja)
- Changbhakar (Chang Bhakar), title Raja (from 1865, Bhaiya)
- Chhuikandan (Kondka), title Mahant
- Jashpur, title Raja
- Kanker, title Maharajadhiraja
- Kawardha, title Thakur
- Khairagarh, title Raja
- Koriya(Korea), title Raja
- (Raj) Nandgaon, title Manhat
- Raigarh, title Raja Bahadur
- Sakti, title Rana
- Sarangarh, title Raja
- Surguja, title Raja (from 1820 HH Maharaja Bahadur)
- Udaipur State, title Raja Bahadur
Bengal States Agency
Salute states :
- Cooch Behar, title Maharaja, Hereditary salute of 13-guns
- Tripura, title Maharaja, Hereditary salute of 13-guns
See also
References
- ^ Guide to the Records in the National Archives of India.
the creation of Eastern States Agency , E. C. Gibson in the Politi cal Department was appointed the first Agent to the Governor General to this Agency . As a result of the noti fi cations , the States of Bihar and Orissa and Central ...
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bengal". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ISBN 81-7188-072-X.
- ^ Sadhna Sharma ed. States Politics in India, 1995, p. 273
- ^ Amalgamation of Princely States