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Gwalior Residency was a political office in the British Indian Empire, which existed from 1782 until the British withdrawal from India in 1947. The Gwalior Residency was placed under the Central India Agency in 1854, and separated from it in 1921.
By the time of the departure of the British in 1947, only four of the largest of the states still had their own British resident, a diplomatic title for advisors present in the states' capitals, while most of the others were grouped together into agencies, such as the Central India Agency, the Deccan States Agency, and the Rajputana Agency.
Gwalior Residency was placed under the Central India Agency in 1854, and separated from Central India Agency in 1911. It included the following, among other smaller states, plus Chhabra pargana (district) of Tonk State : Include Jagirs Chhadawad, Bagli , Dattigaon, Balipur/chikli, Nimkheda, Pathari, Tonk Khurd , etc.
Persian Gulf Residency, for the British protectorates – Trucial States (1892–1971), Bahrain (1892–1971), Muscat and Oman, Kuwait (1914–1961) and Qatar (1916–1971) Bolghatty Palace Residency, Kochi, Kerala – In 1909, the King of Kochi leased the palace to the British, who used it as the British Residency of Cochin during the British Raj
In 1936, the Gwalior residency was separated from the Central India Agency, and made answerable directly to the Governor-General of India. After Indian Independence in 1947, the Scindia rulers acceded to the new Union of India , and Gwalior state was absorbed into the new Indian state of Madhya Bharat .
Gwalior Residency; Jaipur Residency ... The Instrument of Accession was a legal document first introduced by the Government of India Act 1935 and used in 1947 to ...
Before the Partition of India in 1947, hundreds [citation needed] of princely states, also called native or Indian states, existed in India. These states were not a part of British India but functioned as British protectorates under a subsidiary alliance and some indirect rule .
Gwalior Residency Madhya Pradesh Madhya Bharat , also known as Malwa Union , [ 1 ] was an Indian state in west-central India , created on 28 May 1948 [ 2 ] from twenty-five princely states which until 1947 had been part of the Central India Agency , [ 3 ] with Jiwajirao Scindia as its Rajpramukh .