Kathiawar Agency

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Kathiawar Agency was a British Indian administrative unit that oversaw a group of princely states on the Kathiawar (Saurashtra) peninsula in western India.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British Indian administrative unit
political agency
administered non-salute states in Kathiawar
Indian princely states
surface form: princely states of Kathiawar

salute states in Kathiawar
archivedIn British colonial records
borderedBy Arabian Sea
capital Rajkot
country British India
dissolvedAfter Indian independence
establishedBy Colonial Office
surface form: British colonial authorities
existedDuring British India
surface form: British Raj
function maintenance of law and order through indirect rule
mediation between princely rulers and British Government
oversight of internal administration of states
political supervision of princely states
geographicalContext north of Mumbai (Bombay)
governanceType indirect rule through princely states
hadLegalStatus political agency under Bombay Presidency
hadOfficialLanguage English
Gujarati
hadRulingAuthority British Political Agent
hadSubordinateUnits estate-level jurisdictions
princely states
historicalPeriod 19th century
early 20th century
historicalRegionNowIn Gujarat
surface form: Gujarat, India
historicalSuccessor India
surface form: Republic of India
includedPolities numerous small princely states
salute and non-salute chiefs
includedRegion peninsula between Gulf of Kutch and Gulf of Khambhat
locatedIn Kathiawar Peninsula
Saurashtra region of Gujarat
surface form: Saurashtra region

Western India
partOf Bombay Presidency
purpose to coordinate relations with Kathiawar princely rulers
to implement British paramountcy in Kathiawar
regionType peninsular administrative region
relatedTo Western India States Agency
surface form: Baroda Agency

Rewa Kantha Agency
Western India States Agency
reorganizedInto Bombay State
Gujarat
surface form: Gujarat State

Saurashtra State
seatOfAdministration Rajkot
sovereignty under British Crown suzerainty
supervisedBy Governor of Bombay
surface form: Governor of Bombay Presidency

Political Department of the Government of India

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

subject surface form: Porbandar State
Kathiawar Peninsula historicalRegion Kathiawar Agency
subject surface form: Porbandar State
Princely State of Porbandar partOf Kathiawar Agency
Rana partOf Kathiawar Agency
subject surface form: Rana of Porbandar
Kasturba Gandhi placeOfBirth Kathiawar Agency