Central Provinces

Province of British India

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1861–1936

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Central Provinces and Berar in 1903, before the 1905 changes to the eastern boundary

History

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Merger of the Saugor and Nerbudda Territories and Nagpur Province

1861

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Creation of the Central Provinces and Berar

1936

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "". Encyclopædia Britannica. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 681–3.

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The Central Provinces was a province of British India. It comprised British conquests from the Mughals and Marathas in central India, and covered parts of present-day Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra states. Its capital was Nagpur. It became the Central Provinces and Berar in 1936.

The Central Provinces was formed in 1861 by the merger of the Saugor and Nerbudda Territories and Nagpur Province. The district of Nimar which was administered by the Central India Agency was added in 1864. It was almost an island encircled by a sea of "native States" such as Bhopal State and Rewa State to the north, the Chota Nagpur States and Kalahandi State to the east, and the Nizam's territories of Hyderabad to the south and Berar to the west.

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