Bengal States Agency
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| • | Merger of former Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Orissa agencies | 1933 | |||
| • | Accession to the Indian Union | 1948 | |||
The Eastern States Agency was a grouping of princely states in eastern India, during the latter years of Britain′s Indian Empire. It was created in 1933, by the unification of the former Chhattisgarh States Agency and the Orissa States Agency; the agencies remained intact within the grouping. In 1936, the Bengal States Agency was added.
Since the 19th century the princely states and the tributary states of Orissa and Chhota Nagpur were not part of Bengal, but British relations with them were managed by its government through the Bengal Presidency.
The Eastern States Agency was created on 1 April 1933. This agency dealt with forty-two princely states in eastern India, located in the present-day Indian states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal and Tripura. Before the creation of the Eastern States Agency in 1933, twenty-three native states of the former Orissa Tributary States and Chhota Nagpur States were under the suzerainty of the British provinces of Bihar and Orissa and sixteen were under that of the Central Provinces.
The Agent reported to the Governor General of India and two Political Agents under his supervision were posted at Sambalpur and Raipur.
Cooch Behar and Tripura were transferred from Bengal Province to the Eastern States Agency on 1 November 1936.
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