5-618: The Deccan States Agency , also known as the Deccan States Agency and Kolhapur Residency , was a political agency of India , managing the relations of the Government of India with a collection of princely states and jagirs (feudal 'vassal' estates) in western India. The agency was created 1933 with the merger of the Kolhapur Agency (Kolhapur Residency), Poona Agency , Bijapur Agency , Dharwar Agency and Kolaba Agency . It
10-889: The Indian state of Bombay . In 1956 the Kannada language speaking southern portion of Bombay state, which included the former states of the Southern Maratha Country , was transferred to Mysore State (later renamed Karnataka ). Bombay State was divided into the new states of Maharashtra and Gujarat in 1960. Salute states, by precedence : Non-salute states, alphabetically : Former Bijapur Agency , both non-salute : Former Kolaba Agency : Former Dharwar Agency : non-salute : Former Poona Agency : 16°41′N 74°14′E / 16.683°N 74.233°E / 16.683; 74.233 Agencies of British India An agency of British India
15-534: The agent was completely in charge of law and order. The agent of a protected tract or princely state usually lived outside the territory in his charge, as opposed to a Resident who usually lived within his confines and was frequently the District Collector of the adjoining British district. Civil and criminal justice in agencies were usually administered through locally made laws, and the Indian Penal Code
20-574: Was an internally autonomous or semi-autonomous unit of British India whose external affairs were governed by an agent designated by the Viceroy of India . The agencies varied in character from fully autonomous self-governing dependencies such as princely states , where the agent functioned mainly as a representative of the Viceroy, to tribal tracts which were integral parts of the British Empire and where
25-656: Was composed of a number of princely states and jagirs in Western India, located in the present-day Indian states of Maharashtra and Karnataka , six of which were Salute states . The princely states included in the agency were under the suzerainty, but not the control, of the British authorities of the Bombay Presidency . After Indian Independence in 1947, the states all acceded to the Dominion of India , and were integrated into
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