5-726: The Surat Agency was one of the agencies of British India in the Bombay Presidency . This agency was formed in the 19th century as the Khandesh Agency , after the region of Khandesh , becoming the Surat Agency in 1880. Around 1900, the Dangs were incorporated, and in 1933, it was abolished and became part of the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency . In 1944, towards the end of the British Raj,
10-515: A group of small states in what is now the Dang district of Gujarat State . 21°11′N 72°50′E / 21.18°N 72.83°E / 21.18; 72.83 This Indian location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Agencies of British India An agency of British India was an internally autonomous or semi-autonomous unit of British India whose external affairs were governed by an agent designated by
15-563: 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 the agent was completely in charge of law and order. The agent of a protected tract or princely state usually lived outside
20-708: The Baroda and Gujarat States Agency was ultimately merged with the Western India States Agency to form the larger Baroda, Western India and Gujarat States Agency . The headquarters of the Surat Agency were at Surat , where the Political Agent who reported to the Political Department office in Bombay , used to reside. The agency included three 9- gun salute princely states and the Dangs. The Dangs were
25-541: 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 was not applicable by default in these agencies. Political agencies were created, merged or abolished at different times during
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