Surat Agency

Surat Agency
Agency of British India
← 1880–1933 →
Surat district in 1877
History
•	Abolition of the Khandesh Agency	1880
•	Formation of the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency	1933
Area
•	1901	5,076 km^2 (1,960 sq mi)
Population
•	1901	179,975
	Density	35.5 /km^2  (91.8 /sq mi)
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

The Surat Agency was one of the agencies of British India in the Bombay Presidency.^[1]

History

This agency was formed in the 19th century as the Khandesh Agency, after the region of Khandesh, becoming the Surat Agency in 1880.^[2] Around 1900 the Dangs were incorporated and in 1933 it was abolished and became the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency.

Finally in 1944, towards the end of the British Raj, the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency was merged with the Western India States Agency to form the larger Baroda, Western India and Gujarat States Agency.

The headquarters of the Surat Agency were at Surat, where the Political Agent who reported to the Political Department office in Bombay, used to reside.^[3]

States

Bansda and Dharampur, 1896

The agency included three 9-gun salute princely states and the Dangs.

Salute States

• Sachin
• Bansda
• Dharampur

The Dangs

The Dangs were a group of small states in what is now the Dang district of Gujarat State.

State	Population ('000);[4]	Revenue (1881, Rs.)	Ruler's title. Notes
Dang Pimpri	3,6	3106	388 km²
Dang Wadhwan	0,253	147	ca. 12 km². Not to be confused with Wadhwan State whose capital was Wadhwan.
Dang Ketak Kadupada	0,218	155
Dang Amala	5,3	2885; 1891: 5300	Raja. 307 km²
Dang Chinchli	1,67; 1891: ca. 1,4	601	ca. 70 km²
Dang Pimpladevi	0,134	120	ca. 10 km²
Dang Palasbishar (= Palasvihir)	0,223	230	ca. 5 km²
Dang Auchar	ca. 500	201	< 21 km²
Dang Derbhauti	4,891; 1891: ca. 5	3649	Raja. 196 km²
Dang Gadhavi (= Gadhi)	6,309	5125	Raja.
Dang Shivbara	0,346	422	ca. 12 km²
Dang Kirli (= Kirali)	0,167	512	31 km²
Dang Wasurna	6,177	2275
Dang Dhude (= Bilbari)	1,45; 1891: 1418	85	< 5 km²
Dang Surgana	14	11469
Machhali	1.1;	4745	35

See also

• Western India States Agency

References

1.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
2. The Indian Year Book, Volume 11 by Bennett, Coleman & Company, 1924
3. William Lee-Warner, The Native States Of India. (1910)
4. Hunter, W. W.; Imperial Gazetteer of India; London ²1885, Vol. IV, S 115-6

Coordinates: 21°11′N 72°50′E / 21.18°N 72.83°E