| Kathiawar Agency | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agency of British India | |||||||||
| 1819–1924 | |||||||||
 Map of the Kathiawar Agency area | |||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1901 | 54,084 km2 (20,882 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1901 | 2,329,196 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1819 | ||||||||
• Formation of the Western India States Agency | 1924 | ||||||||
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The Kathiawar Agency, on the Kathiawar peninsula in the western part of the Indian subcontinent, was a political unit of some 200 small princely states under the suzerainty of the Bombay Presidency of British India.[1]
The agency's headquarters were at Rajkot,[2] the town where the Political Agent used to reside. He reported to the Political Department office at Bombay, Bombay Presidency.[3]
- ^ W.W. Hunter (1908). The Imperial Gazetteer Of India: Vol. XV: Karachi To Kottayam.
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- ^ Cite error: The named reference
iwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Sessional Papers – Volume 31, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons published by H.M. Stationery Office, 1900 – Page 464
