Deccan States Agency

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|conventional_long_name =Deccan States Agency

|common_name =Deccan States Agency

|capital = Kolhapur

|religion = Hinduism

|era = Interwar period{{*}} World War II

|year_start = 1933

|date_start =

|event_start= Merger of Kolhapur Agency and four smaller agencies

|year_end = 1947

|date_end =

|event_end= Merger into Bombay following Independence of India

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|date_event1 =

| membership_type = States under AGG for Deccan States

| membership = *{{flagicon image|Kolhapur flag.svg}} Kolhapur State

{{flagicon image|Jath flag.svg}} Jath State
{{flagicon image|Bhor flag.svg}} Bhor State
Other 3 salute states, 11 non-salute states and 1 estate

| government_type = Indirect imperial rule over a group of hereditary monarchies

| title_leader = Agent to the
Governor-General

| year_leader1 = 1933 (first)

| leader1 = J.C. Tate

|p1 = Bengal Presidency

|s1 = Bombay State

|flag_p1 = British Raj Red Ensign.svg

|flag_p2 = British Raj Red Ensign.svg

|flag_s1 = Flag of India.svg

|image_flag = British Raj Red Ensign.svg

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|image_map = Deccan States Agency in the Indian Empire.png

|image_map_caption = The Deccan States Agency in the Indian Empire in 1942

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|footnotes = [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924007471935/cu31924007471935_djvu.txt "A collection of treaties, engagements, and sunnuds relating to India and neighbouring countries"]

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The Deccan States Agency, also known as the Deccan States Agency and Kolhapur Residency, was a political agency of India, managing the relations of the Government of India with a collection of princely states[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924070623545/cu31924070623545_djvu.txt "Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency"] and jagirs (feudal 'vassal' estates) in western India.

History

The agency was created 1933 with the merger of the Kolhapur Agency (Kolhapur Residency), Poona Agency, Bijapur Agency, Dharwar Agency and Kolaba Agency.

It was composed of a number of princely states and jagirs in Western India, located in the present-day Indian states of Maharashtra and Karnataka, six of which were Salute states. The princely states included in the agency were under the suzerainty, but not the control, of the British authorities of the Bombay Presidency.

After Indian Independence in 1947, the states all acceded to the Dominion of India, and were integrated into the Indian state of Bombay.{{cite book|title=Political and administrative integration of princely states By S. N. Sadasivan|isbn=9788170999683|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kWptYbzpXE8C&q=UNITED+STATE+OF+KATHIAWAR&pg=PA26|last1=Sadasivan|first1=S. N.|year=2005|publisher=Mittal Publications }} In 1956 the Kannada language speaking southern portion of Bombay state, which included the former states of the Southern Maratha Country, was transferred to Mysore State (later renamed Karnataka). Bombay State was divided into the new states of Maharashtra and Gujarat in 1960.Ramachandra Guha, India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy. HarperCollins, 2007