Bagelkhand Agency

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Bagelkhand Agency
Agency of British India
1871–1933
Central India Agency Map.jpg
Map of the princely states of the Baghelkhand Agency
Area 
 1901
37,100 km2 (14,300 sq mi)
Population 
 1901
1555024
History
History 
 Established
1871
 Disestablished
1933
Succeeded by
Bundelkhand Agency British Raj Red Ensign.svg

The Bagelkhand Agency was a British political unit which managed the relations of the British with a number of autonomous princely states existing outside British India, namely Singrauli, Rewa and 11 minor states, of which the most prominent were Maihar, Nagod and Sohawal. Other principalities included Jaso, Kothi, Baraundha (aka Patharkachhar) as well as the Kalinjar Chaubes, consisting of the princely estates of Paldeo, Kamta-Rajaula, Taraon, Pahra and Bhaisaunda. [1]

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History

The Agency was established in March 1871 [2] and was named after the Bagelkhand region. From 1871 to 1933 the Agency was under the political supervision of the Governor-General of India's Agent for Central India, and under the direct supervision of a political Agent residing ordinarily at Singrauli. [2]

The total area was 14,323 square miles (37,100 km2), and the population in 1901 was 1,555,024, a decrease of 11% over the previous census ten years before, largely due to the results of famine. [2] The rainfall was very deficient in 1895–1897, causing a famine in 1897; and in 1899–1900 there was another drought in some states. [2] In 1931, the eleven smaller states were transferred to the Bundelkhand Agency, and in 1933 the agency was dissolved, when Singrauli and Rewa State joined the Indore Residency. [2]

After the partition of British India into two independent states—India and Pakistan—in 1947, the princely states that made up the Baghelkhand Agency all chose to accede to India and were merged with Singrauli and Rewa to form the new Vindhya Pradesh, which was in turn merged into Madhya Pradesh on November 1, 1956.

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References

  1. Malleson, G. B. An historical sketch of the native states of India, London 1875, Reprint Delhi 1984
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bagelkhand"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 199–200.