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India. The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh was a province of India under the British Raj, which existed from 22 March 1902 to 1937; the official name was shortened by the Government of India Act 1935 to United Provinces (UP), by which the province had been commonly known, and by which name it was also a province of independent India until 1950.
Sep 14, 2019 · United Provinces Exhibition. In 1910-11, after the persistent efforts of the then-Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces, Sir John Prescott Hewett, a national exhibition was organized in Allahabad, the capital of the Province. The exhibition was organized in a way that it coincided with the Magh Mela of Allahabad.
The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh was a province of India under the British Raj, which existed from 22 March 1902 to 1937; the official name was shortened by the Government of India Act 1935 to United Provinces (UP), by which the province had been commonly known, and by which name it was also a province of independent India until 1950. [1]
Post-independence. Following independence in 1947, the princely states of Rampur, Banares and Tehri-Garwal were merged into the United Provinces. On 25 January 1950, this unit was renamed as Uttar Pradesh. In 2000, the separate state of Uttaranchal, now known as Uttarakhand, was carved out of Uttar Pradesh.
Sep 9, 2024 · The United Provinces (UP) was a province of British India and, subsequently, independent India. Prayagraj, also known as Ilahabad or Allahabad in an anglicized version in Roman script, and anciently Prayag , is a city situated on an inland peninsula, surrounded by the rivers Ganges and Yamuna on three sides, with only one side connected to the mainland Doab region, of which it is a part.
Henceforth known as British India, it was thereafter directly ruled as a colonial possession of the United Kingdom, and India was officially known after 1876 as the Indian Empire. [7] India was divided into British India, regions that were directly administered by the British, with acts established and passed in the British parliament, [ 8 ] and the princely states , [ 9 ] ruled by local rulers of different ethnic backgrounds.
After the mutiny, the British truncated the Delhi region of the state, merging it with Punjab and transferring the capital status of the North west Provinces to Allahabad, which remained so for the next 20 years. In 1877, the provinces of Agra (NWPA) and Awadh were merged to form a new state which was called the United Provinces.
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