Bhopawar Agency

Bhopawar Agency
Sub-agency of the Central India Agency
1882–1937

Map of the Central India Agency with the Bhopawar Agency located at its western end
Area 
• 1901
19,902 km2 (7,684 sq mi)
Population 
• 1901
547,546
History 
• Merger of Bhil Agency and Bhil Sub-agency
1882
• Merger into Malwa Agency
1937
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Bhil Agency
Malwa Agency
 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bhopawar". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Bhopawar Agency was a sub-agency of the Central India Agency in British India with the headquarters at the town of Bhopawar, so the name. Bhopawar Agency was created in 1882 from a number of princely states in the Western Nimar and Southern Malwa regions of Central India belonging to the former Bhil Agency and Bhil Sub-agency with the capitals at Bhopawar and Manpur.[1] The agency was named after Bhopawar, a village in Sardarpur tehsil, Dhar District of present-day Madhya Pradesh state. Manpur remained a strictly British territory.

The other chief towns of this region were: Badnawar, Kukshi, Manawar and Sardarpur, Chadawad Estate, Dattigaon. The mighty Vindhya and Satpura ranges crossed the territory of the agency roughly from east to west, with the fertile valley of the Narmada River lying between them. The agency also included the "Bhil Country", inhabited by the Bhil people.[2]

  1. ^ Great Britain India Office. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.
  2. ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 8, p. 145.