Indore was one of the

residencies of British India The Residencies of British India were political offices, each managed by a Resident, who dealt with the relations between the Government of India and one or a territorial set of princely states. History The Residency system has its origins in ...

. Indore Residency included most of

Indore State Indore State, also known as Holkar State, was a kingdom in India. Its rulers belonged to the Holkar dynasty. After 1857, Indore became a 19-gun salute Maratha princely state (a rare high rank) under the British Raj. Indore state wa ...

, and, after 1933,

Rewa State Rewa State, also known as Rewah, was a Rajput princely state of India, surrounding its eponymous capital, the town of Rewa. With an area of about , Rewa was the largest princely state in the Bagelkhand Agency and the second largest in Centra ...

, which formerly belonged to

Bagelkhand 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, Nag ...

. It was part of

Central India Agency The Central India Agency was created in 1854, by amalgamating the Western Malwa Agency with other smaller political offices which formerly reported to the Governor-General of India. The agency was overseen by a political agent who maintained ...

British Residents

List of British Residents of the Indore Residency.Princely States of India
/ref> *1840 - 1844 Sir Claude Martin Wade (b. 1794 - d. 1861) *1845 - 1859 Robert North Collie Hamilton (b. 1802 - d. 1887) *1859 - 1861 Sir Richmond Campbell Shakespear (b. 1812 - d. 1861) *1861 - 1869 Richard John Meade (b. 1821 - d. 1899) *1869 - 1881 Henry D. Daly *1881 - 1888 Henry Lepel-Griffin (b. 1838 - d. 1908) *1888 - 1890 P.F. Henvey *1890 - 1894 R.J. Crosthwaite *1894 - 1899 David W.K. Barr *1899 - 1902 Robert Henry Jennings *1902 - 1903 Francis Younghusband (b. 1863 - d. 1942) *1903 - 1907 Oswald Vivian Bosanquet (1st time) (b. 1866 - d. 1933) *1907 - 1909 James Levett Kaye (b. 1861 - d. 1917) *1909 - 1910 Charles Beckford Luard *1910 - 1916 Charles Lennox Russell *1916 - 1919 Oswald Vivian Bosanquet (2nd time) (s.a.) *1919? - 1921 Francis Granville Beville *1921 - 1924 Denys Brooke Blakeway (b. 1870 - d. 1933) *1924 - 1929 Sir Reginald Glancy *Mar 1927 - Oct 1927 Edward Herbert Kealy (acting for Glancy) *1929 - 1930 H.R.N. Pritchard *1930 - 1931 Frederick Bailey *1931 - 1932 G.M. Ogilvie *1933 - 21 Mar 1935 Rawdon James MacNabb (b. 1883 - d. 1935) *1935 - 1940 Kenneth Samuel Fitze (b. 1887 - d. 1960) *1940 - 1942 Gerald Thomas Fisher *1942 - 1946 Walter F. Campbell *1946 - 1947 Henry Mortimer Poulton (b. 1898 - d. 1973)

References

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