Districts of British India

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The Districts of British India were administrative units of the Government of the

provinces and divisions of British India[1]

History

Districts, often known as

Provinces of British India
[2]

Most of the districts that were created during the British Raj became

independence of India a and some Districts were joining Pakistan
.

Historical districts

The following list includes only districts of British India that which was active during the partition of India in 1947:

Districts in the Assam Province

*Assam Valley Division

Districts:

  • Darrang District
  • Goalpara District
  • Kamrup District
  • Lakhimpur District
  • Nowgong District
  • Sibsagar District

Frontier Tracts:

*Surma Valley and Hills Division

Hill's Districts:

Plain Districts:

Districts in the Baluchistan Province

Districts in the Bengal Presidency

During the partition of India in 1947 , Bengal had 28 districts in 5 divisions:

*
Burdwan Division
(Chuchura)

  • Bankura District
  • Birbhum District
  • Burdwan District
  • Howrah District
  • Hooghly District
    '
  • Midnapore District

*Chittagong Division

*Dacca Division

*
Presidency Division
(Calcutta)

*Rajshahi Division(Jalpaiguri)

Districts in the Bihar Province

*Bhagalpur Division

  • Bhagalpur District
  • Munger District
  • Purnia District
  • Santhal Pargana District

*Chota Nagpur Division(Ranchi)

  • Hazaribagh District
  • Manbhum District
  • Palamau District
  • Ranchi District
  • Singhbhum District

*
Patna Division

*
Tirhut Division
(Muzaffarpur)

Districts in the Bombay Presidency

  • Ahmedabad District
  • Ahmednagar District
  • Belguam District
  • Bharuch District
  • Bijapur District[disambiguation needed]
  • Bomby City District
  • Bomby Suburban District
  • Colaba District
  • Dharwar District
  • East Khandesh District
  • Khira District
  • Nasik District
  • North Kanara District
  • Panchmahal District
  • Poona District
  • Ratnagiri District
  • Satara District
  • Sholapur District
  • Surat District
  • Thana District
  • West Khandesh District

District of Central Provinces and Berar

*Berar Division(Amraoti)

  • Akola District
  • Amraoti District
  • Buldana District
  • Yetmal District

*Chhattisgarh Division(Raipur)

*Jubbulpore Division

  • Hoshangabad District
  • Jubbulpore District
  • Mandla District
  • Nimar District
  • Saugor District

*
Nagpur Division

  • Betul District
  • Chanda District
  • Chhindwara District
  • Nagpur District
  • Wardha District

District in the Jammu and Kashmir State

*
Jammu Province

Districts :

  • Jammu District
  • Kathua District
  • Mirpur District
  • Reasi District
  • Udhampur District

Jaigirs:

*
Kashmir Province

*Frontier Districts:

Districts:

Agency:

District in the Hyderabad State

*Aurangabad division

*
Gulbarga Division

  • Bidar District
  • Gulbarga District
  • Osmanabad District
  • Raichur District

*
Gulshanabad Division
(Medak)

  • Atraf- I- Baldah District
  • Mahbubnagar District
  • Medak District
  • Nalgonda District
  • Nizamabad District

*Warangal Division

  • Adilabad District
  • Karimnagar District
  • Warangal District

Districts in the Madras Presidency

District in the Mysore State

  • Bangalore District
  • Chitaldrug District
  • Hassan District
  • Kadur District
  • Kolar District
  • Mandya District
  • Mysore District
  • Shimoga District
  • Tumkur District

Districts of North-West Frontier Province

Districts of Orissa Province

  • Balasore District
  • Cuttack District
  • Ganjam District
  • Koraput District
  • Puri District
  • Sambalpur District

Districts of Punjab Province

*
Ambala Division

  • Ambala District
  • Gurgaon District
  • Hissar District
  • Karnal District
  • Rohtak District
  • Simla District

*
Jullundur Division

  • Ferozpore District
  • Hoshiarpur District
  • Jullundur District
  • Kangra District
  • Ludhiana District

*Lahore Division

*Multan Division

*Rawalpindi Division

Districts of
Sind Province

Districts of
United Provinces

*
Agra Division

  • Agra District
  • Aligarh District
  • Etah District
  • Mainpuri District
  • Muttra District

*
Allahabad Division

  • Allahabad District
  • Cownpore District
  • Etawah District
  • Fatehpur District
  • Farrukhabad District

*
Benares Division

  • Ballia District
  • Benares District
  • Gazipur District
  • Jaunpur District
  • Mirzapur District

*
Faizabad Division

  • Bahraich District
  • Bara Banki District
  • Faizabad District
  • Gonda District
  • Pratapgarh District
  • Sultanpur District

*
Gorakhpur Division

  • Azamgarh District
  • Basti District
  • Deoria District
  • Gorakhpur District

*
Jhansi Division

*
Kumaon Division
(Nainital)

*
Lucknow Division

  • Hardoi District
  • Kheri District
  • Lucknow District
  • Rae Bareli District
  • Sitapur District
  • Unao District

*
Meerut Division

  • Bulandshahr District
  • Dehra Dun District
  • Meerut District
  • Muzaffarnagar District
  • Saharanpur District

*
Rohilkhand Division
(Bareilly)

  • Bareilly District
  • Bijnaur District
  • Budaun District
  • Moradabad District
  • Pilibhit District
  • Shahjahanpur District

Other districts

  • Ajmer-Merwara Province
    )
  • Coorg District(The only District of Coorg Province
    )

Former Districts

See also

References

  1. Imperial Gazetteer of India
    . Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907-1909
  2. Imperial Gazetteer of India
    , vol. V, 1908

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