Rajputana Agency

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British Indian administrative unit political agency

Rajputana Agency was a British Indian administrative unit comprising a group of princely states in the region now largely corresponding to the modern Indian state of Rajasthan.

Aliases (2)

Rajputana ×10
Rajputana princely states ×2

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British Indian administrative unit → political agency →
administeredBy	Governor-General of India → Political Department of the Government of India →
borderedBy	Central India Agency → Punjab → Sindh →
capital	Ajmer →
composedOf	Rajput princely states → princely states →
country	British India →
dissolvedFollowing	Indian independence →
dissolvedIn	1947 →
ethnicMajority	Rajputs →
function	management of relations between princely states and British Government → supervision of princely states →
governedBy	British political agent →
includedState	Alwar State → Banswara State → Bharatpur State → Bikaner State → Bundi State → Dholpur State → Dungarpur State → Jaipur State → Jaisalmer State → Jhalawar State → Jodhpur State → Kishangarh State → Kota State → Nawanagar jagirs and estates → Pratapgarh State → Shahpura State → Sirohi State → Tonk State → Udaipur State →
languageMajority	Rajasthani languages →
locatedIn	Indian subcontinent → Rajasthan region → Rajputana →
partOf	British Raj → North-Western Provinces and Oudh (in some periods) →
regionNowIn	India → Rajasthan →
religionMajority	Hinduism →
religionMinority	Islam → Jainism →
succeededBy	Rajasthan → Union of Rajasthan princely states →
timePeriod	19th century → early 20th century →

Referenced by (14)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ajmer-Merwara ("Rajputana princely states") → British Sind ("Rajputana") → Sind Province (Pakistan) ("Rajputana") → United Provinces → United Provinces of Agra and Oudh →	borderedBy
Marwar ("Rajputana") → Rajasthan ("Rajputana") →	historicalRegionOf
Dhundhar ("Rajputana") → Mewar ("Rajputana") →	partOf
Balaji Baji Rao ("Rajputana") →	expandedInfluenceTo
Rajputs ("Rajputana princely states") →	historicalPolity
Alwar ("Rajputana") →	historicalRegion
Rajputana Agency ("Rajputana") →	locatedIn
Ajmer-Merwara ("Rajputana") →	region