Rajputana Agency

Agency of British India

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1817–1948

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1920 map of Rajputana region.

History

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First agreements with local princely rulers

1817

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Accession to the Indian Union

1948

Area

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1901

330,875 km²(127,752 sq mi)

Population

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1901

9,723,301

Density

29.4 /km² (76.1 /sq mi)

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The Rajputana Agency was a political office of the British Indian Empire dealing with a collection of native states in India (now in Rajasthan, west of Jaipur, northwestern India), under the political charge of an Agent reporting directly to the Governor-General of India and residing at Mount Abu in the Aravalli Range. The total area of the states falling within the Rajputana Agency was 127,541 square miles (330,330 km²), with eighteen states and two estates or chiefships.

For administrative purposes Rajputana was subdivided into nine groups of states, consisting of three residencies and six agencies, dealing with the following (e)states :

The small British province of Ajmer-Merwara was also included within the geographical area of Rajputana, but that was under direct British rule.

All of the princely states had Hindu rulers, except Tonk, which had a Muslim ruler, most being Rajputs, except two in Eastern Rajputana, Bharatpur State and Dholpur State, which had Jat rulers.

Although Rajputs ruled most of the states, they comprised a small minority of the population; in the 1901 census, of a total population of 9,723,301, only 620,229 were Rajputs, who were numerically strongest in the northern states and in Udaipur & Tarangagadh.

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