Chota Nagpur Division
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South-West Frontier
)| Chota Nagpur Division | |||||||||||
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| Division of British India | |||||||||||
| 1854–1947 | |||||||||||
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 1858 map of the Bengal Presidency with the 'South-West Frontier States' in the SW | |||||||||||
| Capital | Ranchi | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
• 1901 | 70,161 km2 (27,089 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
• 1901 | 4,900,429 | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Modern Period | ||||||||||
• Creation of the division | 1854 | ||||||||||
• Independence of India | 1947 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Bihar Jharkhand Odisha Chhattisgarh | ||||||||||
Imperial Gazetteer of India
map section.Chota Nagpur Division, also known as the South-West Frontier, was an administrative division of
Orissa, and Chhattisgarh
.
History
Chota Nagpur division was a hilly and forested area. The region came under the control of the British in the 18th and 19th centuries, and was annexed to the
Kol rebellion of 1831-2, the division was exempted by Regulation XIII of 1833 from the general laws and regulations governing Bengal, and every branch of the administration was vested in an officer appointed by the supreme Government and called the Agent to the Governor-General of India
for the South-West Frontier.
In 1854 the designation of South-West Frontier Agency was changed to Chota Nagpur and it began to be administered as a
Chota Nagpur States
. The present Divisional Commissioner is Shri. Surendra Singh Meena of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
Chota Nagpur Division became part of the new province of
Bihar and Orissa when it was created in 1912. In 1936 the province was split into the separate provinces of Bihar and Orissa, and the princely states were placed under the authority of the Eastern States Agency.[1]
Administration
The administrative headquarters of the division was at
Chota Nagpur States, a group of princely states, was under the political authority of the division's commissioner.[2]
Districts
The division included five districts:
- Hazaribagh
- Ranchi
- Palamu
- Manbhum
- Singhbhum
See also
References
- ^ "Rice, Ron (2001). New Indian States, Princely States Report, January 2001". Archived from the original on 2006-03-21. Retrieved 2006-04-27.
- Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 12. 1908-1931; Clarendon Press, Oxford.
- Goswami Prodipto, Untold Story of Chota Nagpur: Its Journey with the Colonial Army 1767-1947, Chennai: Notion Press (2020)
External links
- "Chota Nagpu Tributary". Bengal District Gazetteers: B Volume : Statistics, 1900-1901 to 1910-11. Bihar and Orissa Govt. Press. 1905.