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  2. United Provinces of Agra and Oudh - Wikipedia

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    The provinces were bounded on the north by Tibet, and on the north-east by Nepal; on the east and south-east by the Champaran, Saran, Shahabad, and Palamau Districts of Bengal; on the south by two of the Chota Nagpur States in the Central Provinces, Rewah and some small States in the Central India kanpur technical augor District in the Central Provinces; on the west by the States of Gwalior ...

  3. Bengal Presidency - Wikipedia

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    After this, the Bengal province was later merged with the Presidency of Fort William but under the suzerainty of the Emperor until 1835. [6] In 1836, the upper territories of the Bengal Presidency were organised into the Agra Division or Northern States (United Provinces) and administered by a lieutenant-governor within the Presidency. The ...

  4. Presidencies and provinces of British India - Wikipedia

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    Burma: Lower Burma annexed 1852, established as a province in 1862, Upper Burma incorporated in 1886. Separated from British India in 1937 to become administered independently by the newly established British Government Burma Office. Assam: separated from Bengal in 1874 as the North-East Frontier non-regulation province.

  5. United Provinces (1937–1950) - Wikipedia

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    The interesting story on how United Province became Uttar Pradesh at Business Standard This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "United Provinces of Agra and Oudh". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

  6. British Raj - Wikipedia

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    Partition of Bengal; new province of East Bengal and Assam under a Lieutenant-Governor. Census of 1901 gives the total population at 294 million, including 62 million in the princely states and 232 million in British India. [137] About 170,000 are Europeans. 15 million men and 1 million women are literate. Of those school-aged, 25% of the boys ...

  7. States and union territories of India - Wikipedia

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    Bengal, Madras and Bombay which had been till now styled Presidencies, were now officially styled as provinces. The provinces of Orissa and Sind were created from Bihar and Bombay respectively. The Province of Burma which had previously functioned as an autonomous province of India was now separated from the Indian Empire, and established as ...

  8. Bengal Province - Wikipedia

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    Bengal Province or Province of Bengal, may refer to the Imperial Province of the Bengal region under two periods of imperial rule in South Asia: Bengal Subah (1574–1765), Province (Subah) of the Mughal Empire until 1717 and Independent State after 1717; Bengal Presidency (1765–1947), Presidency of the British Indian Empire

  9. Agra Province - Wikipedia

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    Agra Province was a part of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh of British India during the closing decades of the British Raj, from 1904 until 1947; it corresponded (under Section 4(4) of United Provinces Act 1, 1904) to the former regions, Ceded and Conquered Provinces (1805–1836) and the North Western Provinces (1836–1902).