Rajputana Agency

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Rajputana Agency
1832–1948
Flag of Rajputana Agency
Flag
The Rajputana Agency within the Indian Empire in 1920
The Rajputana Agency within the Indian Empire in 1920
Detailed map of Rajputana Agency in 1920.
Detailed map of Rajputana Agency in 1920.
CapitalAjmer (1832–1845)
Mount Abu (1845–1947)
States under AGG for Rajputana
  • Jaipur State
  • Jodhpur State
  • Bikaner State
  • Udaipur State
  • Other 17 salute states, 1 chiefship, 1 zamindari
Government
Indirect imperial rule over a group of hereditary monarchies
Agent to the
Governor-General		 
• 1832–1836 (first)
Abraham Locket
Historical eraNew Imperialism
• First agreements with local princely rulers
1817
• Rajputana Agency established in Ajmer
1832
• Headquarters shifted to Mount Abu
1845
• Accession to the Indian Union
1948
Area
1901330,875 km2 (127,752 sq mi)
Population
• 1901
9,723,301
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Jaisalmer State
Bikaner State
Jodhpur State
Jaipur State
Udaipur State
Maratha Confederacy
Alwar State
Kishangarh State
Dungarpur State
Sirohi State
Banswara State
Kota State
Bundi State
Bharatpur State
Karauli State
Dholpur State
Jhalawar State
Tonk State
Bharatpur State
Rajasthan
Princely state
Individual residencies
Agencies
Lists

The Rajputana Agency was a political office of the British Indian Empire dealing with a collection of native states in Rajputana (now in Rajasthan, northwestern India), under the political charge of an Agent reporting directly to the Governor-General of India and residing at Mount Abu in the Aravalli Range. The total area of the states falling within the Rajputana Agency was 127,541 square miles (330,330 km2), with eighteen states and two estates or chiefships.

Subdivisions and (e)states

The small

British province of Ajmer-Merwara
was also included within the geographical area of Rajputana, but that was under direct British rule.

Population and dynasties

All of the princely states had

Jat
rulers.

Although Rajputs ruled most of the states, they comprised a small minority of the population; in the 1901 census, of a total population of 9,723,301, only 620,229 were Rajputs, who were numerically strongest in the northern states and in Udaipur and Tarangagadh.

Other important castes and tribes of Rajputana were the

Rajasthani languages
.

Rulers

Flag of Rajput

Prior to the Muslim invasions of northern India in the eleventh century, Rajputana was ruled by a number of local dynasties, Chief of these were the

Revolt of 1857
, and few political changes were made in Rajputana until Indian independence in 1947.

Statistical overview

20 princely states forming the Rajputana Agency[3]
Name of princely state Area in square miles Population in 1901 Approximate revenue (in hundred thousand
rupees
)		 Title, ethnicity, and religion of ruler Gun-salute for ruler Designation of local political officer
Udaipur (Mewar)
 12,691 1.02 million (chiefly Hindus 24
Sisodia Rajput
, Hindu		 21 (including two guns personal to the then ruler) Resident in Mewar
Jaipur
 15,579 2.66 million (chiefly Hindu) 62
Kachwaha Rajput
, Hindu		 19 (including two guns personal to the then ruler) Resident at Jaipur
Jodhpur (Marwar)
 34,963 1.94 million (mostly Hindu) 56 Maharaja, Rathor Rajput, Hindu 17 Resident in the western states of Rajputana
Bikaner
 23,311 0.58 million (chiefly Hindu) 23 Maharaja, Rathor Rajput, Hindu 17 Political agent in Bikaner
16 other states 42,374 3.64 million (Chiefly Hindu) 155
Total 128,918 9.84 million 320

Economy

Ajmer-Merwara Province
, 1909

In the time of the

Hyderabad in Sindh
. In 1909 another line was opened running north near the eastern boundary from Kotah to Bharatpur.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 16, p. 156.
  2. ISBN 978-0-19-566727-1
    . They were...historians, and teachers; sometimes they were leading state servants, sometimes guides and protectors of trade.
  3. ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. IV 1907, pp. 94–95

References

  • Imperial Gazetteer of India. Vol. IV. Oxford: The Indian Empire, Administrative, Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council, at the Clarendon Press. 1907.

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