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v. t. e. The Rajputana Agency was a political office of the British Indian Empire dealing with a collection of native states in Rajputana (now in Rajasthan, 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.
George Thomas (Military Memories) was the first in 1800, to term this region the Rajputana Agency. The historian John Keay in his book, India: A History, stated that the Rajputana name was coined by the British, but that the word achieved a retrospective authenticity: in an 1829 translation of Ferishta's history of early Islamic India, John Briggs discarded the phrase "Indian princes", as rendered in Dow's earlier version, and substituted "Rajpoot princes".
The Rajputana Agency of the erstwhile British India was spread over a total area of 330,330 sq km and comprised of 18 princely states and 2 chiefships or estates. The British Government of India sub-divided the Rajputana Agency into 9 distinct groups of states, which consisted of 3 residencies and 6 agencies. These included the following:
Feb 3, 2018 · British India included provinces (regions) that were directly administered by the British, with Acts established and passed in British Parliament and the Princely States were ruled by local rulers. At this time, Rajputana or Rajasthan included: One province of Ajmer-Mewara governed directly by British. 19 Princely States ruled by native rulers.
Biography. Subhash Chandra Lakhotia was born on 4 October 1945 in Churu, a city near Thar desert in the Indian state of Rajasthan, to Dwarka Prasad-Suryakala couple. [6] He did his early schooling in Churu and then in Kolkata. He graduated from Vidyasagar College of the Calcutta University in Zoology Honours in 1964 before obtaining his master ...
Rajputana Agency (1832-1858): A Study of British Relations with the States of Rajputana with special emphasis on the role of the Rajputana Agency by Vijay Kumar Vashishtha c 1978 Archive.org, mirror from the Digital Library of India. Rajputana Gazetteer published 1879-1880. Volume I, Vol. II, Vol. III All Archive.org.
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W HEN India became independent. in 1947, nineteen princely states. and three chiefships of Raj-putana were amalgamated into a single political unit, Rajasthan, that became a state within the Indian union. The spe-. cial form of indirect rule, paramountcy, which Britain exercised in the princely states had not prepared Rajputana for independence.
