Agencies of British India

Colonial India

Imperial entities of India
Dutch India	1605–1825
Danish India	1620–1869
French India	1769–1954
Portuguese India (1505–1961)
Casa da Índia	1434–1833
Portuguese East India Company	1628–1633
British India (1612–1947)
East India Company	1612–1757
Company rule in India	1757–1858
British Raj	1858–1947
British rule in Burma	1824–1948
Princely states	1721–1949
Partition of India	1947

An agency of British India is an internally autonomous or semi-autonomous unit of British India whose external affairs were governed by an agent designated by the Viceroy of India.They varied in character from fully autonomous self-governing dependencies such as princely states where the agent functioned mainly as a representative of the Viceroy to tribal tracts which were integral parts of the British Empire and where the agent was completely in charge of law and order. The agent of a protected tract or princely state usually resided outside the territory in his charge as opposed to a Resident who usually resided within his confines and was not infrequently, the District Collector of the adjoining British district.

Civil and criminal justice in agencies were usually administered through locally made laws and the Indian Penal Code was not applicable by default in these agencies.

Political agencies were created, merged or abolished at different times during the history of the British Raj. This list includes all agencies, regardless of the historical period.