Bhopawar Agency
| Bhopawar Agency | |||||||||
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| Sub-agency of the Central India Agency | |||||||||
| 1882–1937 | |||||||||
 Map of the Central India Agency with the Bhopawar Agency located at its western end | |||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1901 | 19,902 km2 (7,684 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1901 | 547,546 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Merger of Bhil Sub-agency | 1882 | ||||||||
• Merger into Malwa Agency | 1937 | ||||||||
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| This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bhopawar". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. | |||||||||
Bhopawar Agency was a sub-agency of the
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The other chief towns of this region were:
History
At the time of its 1882 establishment, the agency had a total area of 7,684 square miles (19,900 km2), and its population was 547,546 according to the 1901 census. In 1904 certain districts were transferred from this agency to the Indore Residency, created in 1899, and the area of Bhopawar was thus reduced by 3,283 square miles (8,500 km2).[3]
In 1925 Bhopawar Agency was merged into Malwa Agency, and in 1927 the agency was renamed the Malwa-Bhopawar States Agency, which was renamed again as the Malwa Agency in 1934.
After Indian Independence in 1947, the rulers of the princely states within Malwa-Bhopawar Agency acceded to the Union of India, and the region became part of the new state of Madhya Bharat. Madhya Bharat was merged into Madhya Pradesh on 1 November 1956.
Princely states and their feudatory estates
Salute States
Salute states in the agency, by precedence, with their feudatories :
- Dhar, title Maharaja, Hereditary salute of 15-guns
- Alirajpur, title Raja, Hereditary salute of 11-guns
- including the extinct State of Phulmaal, which was incorporated into it earlier as well as Fiefs(Jagirs)
- Ondhwa
- Sondhwa.
- including the extinct State of Phulmaal, which was incorporated into it earlier as well as
- Barwani, title Maharana, Hereditary salute of 11-guns
- Jhabua, title Raja, Hereditary salute of 11-guns (till 1927, later shifted to (Malwa Agency)
Non-salute states
Minor and petty Princely states in the agency included (alphabetically, with their feudatories) :
- Amjhera, title Rao
- Bakhatgarh
- Chhadawad, title Rao
- Jobat, title Raja
- Kathiwara, title Thakur
- Mathwar, title Rana
- Multhan.
- Ratanmal, title Thakur.
- in Indore State Territory's few enclaves like - Petlawad Tehsil, Dahi Jagir etc.
- also including around about seventeen Jagirdars) who paid direct tributeto Indore Durbar .
Further estates, not named above, include :
References
- ^ Great Britain India Office. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.
- ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 8, p. 145.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bhopawar". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 846.