Berar Division

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Berar Division
Division of British India
1903–1947
Flag of Berar Division
Flag
Ellichpur
(Achalpur)
Area 
• 1881
28,515 km2 (11,010 sq mi)
Population 
• 1881
2,672,673
History 
• Creation of the division
1903
• 
Independence of India
1947
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Berar Province
Amravati Division
 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Berar". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Hyderabad State (dark green) and Berar (light green), not a part of Hyderabad State but also the Nizam's Dominion between 1853 and 1903.

The Berar Division, formerly

Ellichpur
(Achalpur) was the capital and the administrative headquarters of the division.

The Berar Division had an area of 28,515 km² with a population of 2,672,673 in 1881. The main mountain chains in the area were the

Pranhita.[1] It was located in present-day Maharashtra state of India
.

History

Nawab Mir Sir Mahbub Ali Khan leased Berar permanently to the British against an annual payment of 25 lakh (2.5 million) rupees. Lord Curzon decided to merge Berar with the Central Provinces, and this was proclaimed on 17 September 1903. Thus the Central Provinces and Berar was born by a Residency Order, dated the 30 September 1903, and the administration of Berar was placed under the Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces.[2]

After October 1, 1903, the administration of the province was placed under the commissioner-general for the Central Provinces as the 'Berar Division'. On 24 October 1936, with the establishment of the legislative assembly of the 'Central Provinces and Berar' the Central Provinces became 'Central Provinces and Berar' when it was fully merged with Berar, although Berar Division remained under the nominal sovereignty of Hyderabad.[3]

Following the

Bombay State. In 1960, Bombay State was split along linguistic lines, and the southern, Marathi-speaking portion of the state, including Berar Division, became the new state of Maharashtra
.

Territory

Berar consisted of one Division with a Commissioner. It was under the administrative authority of the Chief Commissioner for the Central Provinces, but administered separately from the other divisions until 1936.

In 1904, there were twelve municipalities in Berar, including

Ellichpur, Basim, Yeotmal, Khamgaon, Shegaon, Akot, and four more.[4]
After the
Independence of India it became the Amravati Division of the state of Maharashtra
.

Districts

The Berar Division included the five districts of

Basim
(Washim) in 1905. It was later rearranged into the following four districts:

  • Amraoti (Amravati)
  • Yeotmal
    (Yavatmal)
  • Akola
  • Buldana
    (Buldhana)

See also

References

  1. Imperial Gazetteer of India
    , Volume 6. 1908-1931; Clarendon Press, Oxford.
  2. ^ "Gazetteers of the Bombay Presidency-Buldhana district-History-British Period". Buldhana District Gazetteer website. Archived from the original on 2008-10-06. Retrieved 2009-03-25.
  3. ^ Olson, James S. and Robert Shadle, eds. Historical Dictionary of the British Empire, Vol. 1. Greenwood Publishing Group, UK 1996. P. 227.
  4. ^ Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 7, page 411 - Imperial Gazetteer of India - Digital South Asia Library

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