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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
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Kathiawar Agency Maratha Confederacy
Western India States Agency Kathiawar Agency

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]

  1. ^ W.W. Hunter (1908). The Imperial Gazetteer Of India: Vol. XV: Karachi To Kottayam. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference i was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Sessional Papers – Volume 31, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons published by H.M. Stationery Office, 1900 – Page 464

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