Divisions of British India

Administrative divisions of the Government of the British Raj or the Indian Empire

Colonial India
British Indian Empire
Imperial entities of India
Austrian India 1778–1785
Swedish India 1731–1813
Dutch India 1605–1825
Danish India 1620–1869
French India 1668–1954
Portuguese India
(1505–1961)
Casa da Índia 1434–1833
Portuguese East India Company 1628–1633
British India
(1600–1947)
EIC in India 1600–1757
Company rule in India 1757–1858
British rule in Portuguese India 1797–1813
British Raj 1858–1947
British rule in Burma 1824–1948
Princely states 1721–1949
Partition of India 1947
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1909 British Indian Empire map as appeared in The Imperial Gazetteer of India

The divisions of British India were the administrative divisions of the Government of the British Raj or the Indian Empire.[1]

Divisions in Bengal

The seven Bengal Regulation Districts were named as 'divisions' in 1851:

  • Jessore Division, area 14,853 sq mi, population 5,345,472 (1851)
  • Bhagalpur Division area 26,464 sq mi, population 8,431,000
  • Cuttack Division, area 12,664 sq mi, population 2,793,883
  • British division (Moorshedabad), area 17,556 sq mi, population 6,815,876
  • Dacca Division, area 20,942 sq mi, population 4,055,800
  • Patna Division, area 13,803 sq mi, population 7,000,000
  • Chittagong Division, area 7,410 sq mi, population 2,406,950

The partition of Bengal in 1905 , there were seven divisions in Bengal :

After the reunited of Bengal in 1911, the boundaries of Bengal were changed and the Bengal were divided five divisions . viz :

Divisions of Eastern Bengal and Assam

The divisions of Eastern Bengal and Assam Province 1905—1912:

Divisions in Baroda

  • Kadi Division
  • Baroda Division
  • Amreli Division
  • Navsari Division

Divisions in Bombay

  • Northern Division
  • Southern Division
  • Central Division
  • Sind Division until1936

Divisions in Burma

Divisions in Central India

Divisions in Central Provinces and Berar

Divisions of Hyderabad

Divisions in Rajputana

  • Western Rajputana States Residency
  • Haraoti and Tonk Agency
  • Mewar Residency
  • Eastern Rajputana States Agency
  • Kotah and Jhalawar Agency

Divisions in United Provinces

Divisions in Punjab

See also

References

  1. ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India. Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907-1909

External links

  • Pamphlets issued by the India office and by other British and Indian governmental agencies, relating to the government of India, and to various political, economic, and social questions concerning it and Burma


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