Kathiawar Agency
| Kathiawar Agency | |||||
| Agency of British India | |||||
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| History | |||||
| • | Established | 1819 | |||
| • | Formation of the Western India States Agency | 1922 | |||
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| • | 1901 | 54,084 km2(20,882 sq mi) | |||
| Population | |||||
| • | 1901 | 2,329,196 | |||
| Density | 43.1 /km2 (111.5 /sq mi) | ||||
 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. |
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The Kathiawar Agency, on the Kathiawar peninsula (Saurashtra lying between 20° 41′ and 23° 8′ N. and 68° 56′ and 72° 20′ E.; extreme length about 220 miles, greatest breadth about 165 miles, area about 23,445 square miles, and its 1001 population 2,645,805) in the western part of the Indian subcontinent, was a political unit of some 200 small princely states under the suzerainty of the Bombay Presidency of British India, now part of Gujarat state. About 1,245 square miles, with 173,436 persons, belonged to the Gaikwar; about 1,298 square miles, with 128,559 persons, to Ahmadabad District; about 20 square miles, with 14,614 persons, to the Portuguese possession of Diu; while the vast remainder (area 20,882 square miles and population 2,329,196) was the territory forming the Political Agency.
The agency's headquarters were at Rajkot, the town where the British Political Agent used to reside. He reported to the Political Department office at Bombay, Bombay Presidency.
The agency was formed in 1822, after the princely states in the area became British protectorates.
The region was severely affected by the famine of 1899–1900. Between 1891 and 1901 the population of the states covered by the Agency decreased by 15 per cent, largely due to the results of the famine.
On 10 October 1924 the agency was abolished and merged into the Western India States Agency, which had three subdivisions:
According to the Imperial Gazetteer, the Kathiawar Agency was divided for administrative purposes into four prants or divisions - JHALAWAR, HALAR, SORATH and GOHELWAR - and its 193 princely states had since 1863 been arranged in seven classes: eight First-class States, six Second-class states, eight Third-class states, nine Fourth-class states, sixteen Fifth-class states, thirty sixth-class states, five seventh-class states, with the remaining 111 petty states combined into thana circles.
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