Surat Agency

सूरत
સુરત
سورت

Agency of British India
1880–1933

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Surat Agency within Gujarat
Area|

• 1901

| 5,076 km2 (1,960 sq mi)
Population|

• 1901

| 179,975
History|

• Abolition of the Khandesh Agency

| 1880

• Formation of the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency

| 1933

Preceded by | Succeeded by

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|  | Khandesh

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| Baroda and Gujarat States Agency |

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Surat Agency with all princely states with labels British India 1880-1933 Bansda and Dharampur, 1896 Princely state

* Salute state
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* Chamber of Princes
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* Residencies of British India‎
* Doctrine of lapse
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* Privy Purse
* Standstill agreement
* Instrument of Accession

Individual residencies

* Hyderabad
* Indore (Holkar)
* Jammu and Kashmir
* Mysore (Maisur)
* Quilon
* Sikkim

Agencies

* Bagelkhand
* Baluchistan
* Baroda and Gujarat States
* Baroda, Western India and Gujarat States
* Bhopawar
* Bundelkhand
* Central India
* Deccan States
* Eastern States
* Gilgit
* Gwalior Residency
* Jaipur Residency
* Madras States
* Mahi Kantha
* Malwa
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* North-West Frontier
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* Punjab States
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The Surat Agency was one of the agencies of British India in the Bombay Presidency.[1]

## History

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This agency was formed in the 19th century as the Khandesh Agency, after the region of Khandesh, becoming the Surat Agency in 1880.[2] 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, 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.[3]

## States

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The agency included three 9-gun salute princely states and the Dangs.[1]

### Salute States

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* Sachin
* Bansda
* Dharampur

### The Dangs

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The Dangs were a group of small states in what is now the Dang district of Gujarat State.

State  | Population[4] | Revenue (1881, Rs.)  | Ruler's title. Notes

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Pimpri State | 3,600  | 3106  | 388 km2
Vadhyawan State | 253  | 147  | approx. 12 km2. Not to be confused with Wadhwan State, whose capital was Wadhwan.
Dang Ketak Kadupada | 218  | 155  |
Amala State | 5,300  | 2885; 1891: 5300  | Raja. 307 km2
Chinchli Gaded State | 1,670; 1891: approx. 1,400  | 601  | approx. 70 km2
Pimpladevi State | 134  | 120  | approx. 10 km2
Palasvihir State | 223  | 230  | approx. 5 km2
Avchar State | approx. 500  | 201  | < 21 km2
Derbhavti State | 4,891; 1891: approx. 5,000  | 3649  | Raja. 196 km2
Gadvi State (= Gadhi)  | 6,309  | 5125  | Raja.
Shivbara State | 346  | 422  | approx. 12 km2
Kirli State (= Kirali)  | 167  | 512  | 31 km2
Vasurna State | 6,177  | 2275  |
Bilbari State | 27  | 85  | < 5 km2
Jhari Gharkhadi State | 507  |  | 21.16 km2
Dang Surgana | 14,000  | 11,469  |
Machhali | 1,100  | 4745  | 35

## See also

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* Western India States Agency

## References

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1. ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Surat" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 117.
2. ^ The Indian Year Book, Volume 11 by Bennett, Coleman & Company, 1924
3. ^ William Lee-Warner, The Native States Of India. (1910)
4. ^ Hunter, W. W.; Imperial Gazetteer of India; London ²1885, Vol. IV, S 115-6

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