British Indian Empire 1909 Imperial Gazetteer of India

The Divisions of British India were

administrative units Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic names for geographical areas into which a particular, ind ...

of the Government of the

British Raj The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent; * * it is also called Crown rule in India, * * * * or Direct rule in India, * Quote: "Mill, who was him ...

or Indian Empire.''

Imperial Gazetteer of India ''The Imperial Gazetteer of India'' was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire, and is now a historical reference work. It was first published in 1881. Sir William Wilson Hunter made the original plans of the book, starting in 1869.< ...

''. Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907-1909

Divisions in Bengal

The seven

Bengal Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...

Regulation Districts were named as 'divisions' in 1851: * Jessore Division, area 14,853 sq mi, population 5,345,472 (1851) *

Bhagalpur Division Bhagalpur division is an administrative geographical unit of Bihar state of India, with Bhagalpur as the administrative headquarters of the division. , the division consists of Bhagalpur district, Banka district and is located on the bank of ...

area 26,464 sq mi, population 8,431,000 *

Cuttack Division Cuttack (, or officially Kataka ) in Odia is the former capital and the second largest city in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the headquarters of the Cuttack district. The name of the city is an anglicised form of ''Kataka'' which literall ...

, area 12,664 sq mi, population 2,793,883 *British division ( Moorshedabad), area 17,556 sq mi, population 6,815,876 *

Dacca Division Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city i ...

, area 20,942 sq mi, population 4,055,800 *

Patna Division Patna Division is one of the nine administrative units of Bihar, a state in the east of India. Patna is the headquarters of the division. Established in 1829, it is one of the oldest divisions of the state. History of administrative districts i ...

, area 13,803 sq mi, population 7,000,000 * Chittagong Division, area 7,410 sq mi, population 2,406,950

Divisions of Eastern Bengal and Assam

The divisions of

Eastern Bengal and Assam Eastern Bengal and Assam was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India between 1905 and 1912. Headquartered in the city of Dacca, it covered territories in what are now Bangladesh, Northeast India and Northern West Bengal. Hist ...

Province 1905—1912: *Dacca Division *Chittagong Division *

Rajshahi Division Rajshahi Division ( bn, রাজশাহী বিভাগ) is one of the eight first-level administrative divisions of Bangladesh. It has an area of and a population at the 2011 Census of 18,484,858. Rajshahi Division consists of 8 district ...

* Assam Valley Division *

Surma Valley and Hill Districts Division Surma may refer to: * Surma (Finnish mythology), a beast which guards the gates of the Underworld * Surma people, a pastoralist ethnic group in western Ethiopia * Surma (woreda), a district in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Re ...

Divisions in Baroda

Kadi Division Kadi may refer to: Radio * KADI-FM, a radio station (99.5 FM) licensed to serve Republic, Missouri, United States * KICK (AM), a radio station (1340 AM) licensed to serve Springfield, Missouri, which held the call sign KADI from 2005 to 2015 *WFUN ...

Baroda Division Vadodara (), also known as Baroda, is the second largest city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the Vadodara district and is situated on the banks of the Vishwamitri River, from the state capital ...

* Amreli Division *

Navsari Division Navsari is the ninth biggest city in the state of Gujarat in India. It is the administrative headquarters of Navsari District. Navsari is situated between Surat & Mumbai. Navsari is a twin city of Surat. It is located 37 km south of Su ...

Divisions in Bombay

* Northern Division * Southern Division * Central Division *

Sind Division The Sind Division was the name an administrative division of the British Raj located in Sindh. History The territory was annexed by the Bombay Presidency of British India on 17 February 1843, following a British Indian conquest led by then Major ...

Divisions in Burma

* Arakan Division *

Pegu Division Bago Region ( my, ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Pegu Division and Bago Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the southern central part of the country. It is bordered by Magway Region a ...

Irrawaddy Division Ayeyarwady Region ( my, ဧရာဝတီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး , , ; formerly Ayeyarwady Division and Irrawaddy Division), is a region of Myanmar, occupying the delta region of the Ayeyarwady River (Irrawaddy River). It is bor ...

Tenasserim Division Tanintharyi Region ( my, တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; Mon: or ; ms, Tanah Sari; formerly Tenasserim Division and subsequently Tanintharyi Division, th, ตะนาวศรี, RTGS: ''Tanao Si'', ; ...

* Mimbu Division *

Mandalay Division Mandalay Region ( my, မန္တလေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Mandalay Division) is an administrative division of Myanmar. It is located in the center of the country, bordering Sagaing Region and Magway Region to ...

Sagaing Division Sagaing Region ( my, စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and lo ...

* Meiktila Division

Divisions in Central India

Gwalior Residency Gwalior Residency was a political office in the British Raj, British Indian Empire, which existed from 1782 until the British withdrawal from India in 1947. The Gwalior Residency was placed under the Central India Agency in 1854, and separate ...

Bundelkhand Agency The Bundelkhand Agency was a political agency of the British Raj, managing the relations of the British government with the protected princely states of the Bundelkhand region. History Historical background The Marathas ceded parts of Bu ...

Baghelkhand Agency 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 Rewa and 11 minor states, of which the most prominent were Maihar, Na ...

Malwa Agency Malwa Agency was an administrative section of India's Central India Agency. The headquarters of the political agent was at Mandsaur (Mandasor) / Neemuch (Nimach). The other chief towns of the region were : Ratlam and Jaora. History The Malw ...

Bhopal Agency The Bhopal Agency was a section of British India's colonial Central India Agency, a British political unit which managed the relations of the British with a number of autonomous princely states existing outside British India.Great Britain India ...

Indore Residency Indore was one of the residencies of British India. Indore Residency included most of Indore State, and, after 1933, Rewa State, which formerly belonged to Bagelkhand Agency. It was part of Central India Agency The Central India Agency was ...

Bhopawar Agency Bhopawar Agency was a sub-agency of the Central India Agency in British India with the headquarters at the town of Bhopawar, so the name. Bhopawar Agency was created in 1882 from a number of princely states in the Western Nimar and Southern Malwa ...

Chhattisgarh Division Chhattisgarh Division was an administrative division of the Central Provinces of British India. It was located in the east of the Central Provinces and encompassed the upper Mahanadi River basin, in the central part of present-day Chhattisgarh st ...

* Nagpur Division * Jubbulpore Division *

Nerbudda Division The Nerbudda Division, named after the Narmada River (Nerbudda), was a former administrative division of the Central Provinces of British India. It encompassed a good part of the Narmada River basin in the eastern part of present-day Madhya Prades ...

Berar Division The Berar Division, formerly Berar Province, was one of the former administrative divisions of the Central Provinces and Berar of British India. Ellichpur (Achalpur) was the capital and the administrative headquarters of the division. The Ber ...

Divisions of Hyderabad

* Aurangabad Division * Gulbarga Division * Gushanabad Division (Medak Division) *

Warangal Division Warangal Division was administratively part of the Hyderabad State was made up of sixteen districts. Warangal was one of four divisions in the state. Districts * Adilabad * Karimnagar * Warangal Warangal () is a city in the Indian state ...

Divisions in Rajputana

* Western Rajputana States Residency * Haraoti and Tonk Agency * Mewar Residency *

Eastern Rajputana States Agency Eastern may refer to: Transportation *China Eastern Airlines, a current Chinese airline based in Shanghai * Eastern Air, former name of Zambia Skyways * Eastern Air Lines, a defunct American airline that operated from 1926 to 1991 * Eastern Air ...

* Kotah and Jhalawar Agency

Divisions in Agra

* Meerut Division * Agra Division *

Bareilly Division Bareilly division is an administrative geographical unit of Uttar Pradesh state of India. Bareilly is the administrative headquarters of the division. Part of the Rohilkhand region, Bareilly division has four major cities in west Uttar Prades ...

Allahabad Division Allahabad division, officially known as Prayagraj division, is an administrative unit of Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. In 2000, when Uttar Pradesh was reorganised by forming Uttaranchal out of its northern areas, Allahabad division and the d ...

Benares Division Varanasi division is an administrative geographical unit of Uttar Pradesh state of India. Varanasi is the administrative headquarters of the division. Currently (2018), the division consists of districts of Varanasi, Chandauli, Ghazipur, and ...

* Gorakhpur Division *

Kumaun Division Kumaon (; Kumaoni: ''Kumāū''; ; historically romanized as KemāonJames Prinsep (Editor)John McClelland ) is a revenue and administrative division in the Indian State of Uttarakhand. It spans over the eastern half of the state and is bounded ...

Divisions in Oudh

* Lucknow Division formerly also Sitapur Division *

Faizabad Division Faizabad division, officially known as Ayodhya division, is an administrative geographical unit of Uttar Pradesh state in India. Ayodhya is the administrative headquarters of the division. The government of Uttar Pradesh approved the renaming ...

(Fyzabad Division)

Divisions in Punjab

Lahore Division Lahore Division is an administrative division of Punjab Province, Pakistan. It comprises four Districts - Kasur, Lahore, Nankana Sahib and Sheikhupura. The Lahore Division is commanded by a Commissioner to manage the division. Under the Commissi ...

* Rawalpindi Division *

Multan Division Multan Division is an administrative division of Punjab Province, Pakistan. The reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government but the division system was restored again in 2008. Districts It consists of the following districts: Histo ...

Ambala Division Ambala Division is one of the six divisions of Haryana State of India. The division comprises the districts of Ambala, Kurukshetra, Panchkula and Yamuna Nagar Yamunanagar (), is a city and a municipal corporation in Yamunanagar district ...

and

Delhi Division Delhi Division is the only administrative and revenue division in the Delhi which consists of eleven Revenue districts. Civil Lines in Central Delhi district is the headquarters of the Delhi division. Delhi Division is headed by an IAS officer ...

until 1921 * Jalandhar Division

References

External links

Pamphlets issued by the India office and by other British and Indian governmental agencies, relating to the government of India, and to various political, economic, and social questions concerning it and Burma
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