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The Surat Agency was one of the
The Surat Agency was one of the agencies of British India
An agency of British India was an internally autonomous or semi-autonomous subdivision of India whose external affairs were governed by an agent designated by the Viceroy of India.Great Britain India Office. '' The Imperial Gazetteer of India' ...
in the Bombay Presidency.
History
This agency was formed in the 19th century as the Khandesh Agency, after the region ofKhandesh
Khandesh is a geographic region in Central India, which includes parts of the northwestern portion of Maharashtra as well as Burhanpur District of Madhya Pradesh.
The use of Khandeshi Language (a.k.a. the Ahirani Language) is prevalent in t ...
, becoming the Surat Agency in 1880.''The Indian Year Book,'' Volume 11 by Bennett, Coleman & Company, 1924 Around 1900, the Dangs were incorporated, and in 1933, it was abolished and became part of the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency.
Finally in 1944, towards the end of the British Raj, the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency was merged with the Western India States Agency to form the larger Baroda, Western India and Gujarat States Agency.
The headquarters of the Surat Agency were at Surat, where the Political Agent who reported to the Political Department office in Bombay
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second-m ...
, used to reside.William Lee-Warner, ''The Native States Of India''. (1910)
States
The agency included three 9-gun salute
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Histo ...
princely states
A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to ...
and the Dangs.Salute States
* Sachin * Bansda * DharampurThe Dangs
The Dangs were a group of small states in what is now the Dang district of Gujarat State.See also
* Western India States AgencyReferences
Agencies of British India History of Gujarat 1933 disestablishments in India 1880 establishments in India Bombay Presidency {{India-geo-stub