Divisions_of_British_India
Divisions of British India
Administrative divisions of the Government of the British Raj or the Indian Empire
The divisions of British India were the administrative divisions of the Government of the British Raj or the Indian Empire.[1]
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 :
- Presidency Division
- Burdwan Division
- Patna Division
- Bhagalpur Division
- Tirhut Division
- Chota Nagpur Division
- Orissa Division(Cuttack)
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:
- Dacca Division
- Chittagong Division
- Rajshahi Division
- Assam Valley Division
- Surma Valley and Hill Districts Division
- Kadi Division
- Baroda Division
- Amreli Division
- Navsari Division
- Northern Division
- Southern Division
- Central Division
- Sind Division until1936
See also: Agencies of British India and Residencies of British India
- Aurangabad Division
- Gulbarga Division
- Gushanabad Division (Medak Division)
- Warangal Division
See also: Rajputana Agency
- Western Rajputana States Residency
- Haraoti and Tonk Agency
- Mewar Residency
- Eastern Rajputana States Agency
- Kotah and Jhalawar Agency
- Meerut Division
- Agra Division
- Bareilly Division
- Allahabad Division
- Benares Division
- Gorakhpur Division
- Kumaun Division
- Jhansi Division
- Lucknow Division formerly also Sitapur Division
- Faizabad Division (Fyzabad Division)
- Lahore Division
- Rawalpindi Division
- Multan Division
- Ambala Division and Delhi Division until 1921
- Jalandhar Division
- Imperial Gazetteer of India. Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907-1909
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