Administrative divisions of British India

Colonial India

Imperial entities of India

|  Austrian India|  1778–1785

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Swedish India|  1731–1813
Dutch India|  1605–1825
Danish India|  1620–1869
French India|  1668–1954

Portuguese India
(1505–1961)

|  Casa da Índia|  1434–1833

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Portuguese East India Company|  1628–1633

British India
(1600–1947)

|  EIC in India|  1600–1757

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Company rule in India|  1757–1858
British rule in Portuguese India|  1797–1813
British Raj|  1858–1947
British rule in Burma|  1824–1948
Princely states|  1721–1949
Partition of India|  1947

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1909 British Indian Empire map as appeared in The Imperial Gazetteer of India

The Divisions of British India were administrative units of the Government of the British Raj or Indian Empire.[1]

## Divisions in Bengal[edit]

The seven Bengal Regulation Districts were named as 'divisions' in 1851:

* Jessore Division, area 14,853 sq mi, population 5,345,472 (1851)
* Bhagalpur Division area 26,464 sq mi, population 8,431,000
* Cuttack Division, area 12,664 sq mi, population 2,793,883
* British division

(Moorshedabad), area 17,556 sq mi, population 6,815,876

* Dacca Division, area 20,942 sq mi, population 4,055,800
* Patna Division, area 13,803 sq mi, population 7,000,000
* Chittagong Division, area 7,410 sq mi, population 2,406,950

### Divisions of Eastern Bengal and Assam[edit]

The divisions of Eastern Bengal and Assam Province 1905—1912:

* Dacca Division
* Chittagong Division
* Rajshahi Division
* Assam Valley Division
* Surma Valley and Hill Districts Division

## Divisions in Baroda[edit]

* Kadi Division
* Baroda Division
* Amreli Division
* Navsari Division

## Divisions in Bombay[edit]

* Northern Division
* Southern Division
* Central Division
* Sind Division

## Divisions in Burma[edit]

* Arakan Division
* Pegu Division
* Irrawaddy Division
* Tenasserim Division
* Mimbu Division
* Mandalay Division
* Sagaing Division
* Meiktila Division

## Divisions in Central India[edit]

See also: Agencies of British India and Residencies of British India

* Gwalior Residency
* Bundelkhand Agency
* Baghelkhand Agency
* Malwa Agency
* Bhopal Agency
* Indore Residency
* Bhopawar Agency
* Chhattisgarh Division
* Nagpur Division
* Jubbulpore Division
* Nerbudda Division
* Berar Division

## Divisions of Hyderabad[edit]

* Aurangabad Division
* Gulbarga Division
* Gushanabad Division (Medak Division)
* Warangal Division

## Divisions in Rajputana[edit]

See also: Rajputana Agency

* Western Rajputana States Residency
* Haraoti and Tonk Agency
* Mewar Residency
* Eastern Rajputana States Agency
* Kotah and Jhalawar Agency

## Divisions in Agra[edit]

* Meerut Division
* Agra Division
* Bareilly Division
* Allahabad Division
* Benares Division
* Gorakhpur Division
* Kumaun Division

### Divisions in Oudh[edit]

* Lucknow Division formerly also Sitapur Division
* Faizabad Division (Fyzabad Division)

## Divisions in Punjab[edit]

* Lahore Division
* Rawalpindi Division
* Multan Division
* Ambala Division and Delhi Division until 1921
* Jalandhar Division

## See also[edit]

* Medak Gulshanabad Division
* Presidencies and provinces of British India
* Subdivisions of British India
* Territorial evolution of the British Empire

## References[edit]

1. ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India. Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907-1909

## External links[edit]

* Pamphlets issued by the India office and by other British and Indian governmental agencies, relating to the government of India, and to various political, economic, and social questions concerning it and Burma

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Divisions of British India

* Berar Division
* Ceded and Conquered Provinces
* Cis-Sutlej states
* Chhattisgarh Division
* Chota Nagpur Division
* Delhi Territory
* Jubbulpore Division
* Marri-Bugti Country
* Medak Gulshanabad Division
* Nerbudda Division
* Northern Circars
* Orissa Division
* Saugor and Nerbudda Territories
* Sind Division
* Trucial States

* Agencies of British India
* British rule in Burma
* Districts of British India
* Provinces of British India
* List of princely states of British India (alphabetical)
* Residencies of British India
* Subdivisions of British India
* Territorial evolution of the British Empire

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