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==List of agencies==
==List of agencies==
Political agencies were created, merged or abolished at different times during the history of the British Raj.<ref>{{EB1911}}</ref>
Political agencies were created, merged or abolished at different times during the history of the British Raj.<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=British Empire}}</ref>
This list includes all agencies, regardless of the historical period.
This list includes all agencies, regardless of the historical period.
* [[Aden Agency]] (1839 – 1859)
* [[Aden Agency]] (1839 – 1859)

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An agency of British India is an internally autonomous or semi-autonomous unit of British India whose external affairs were governed by an agent designated by the Viceroy of India.[1]They varied in character from fully autonomous self-governing dependencies such as princely states where the agent functioned mainly as a representative of the Viceroy to tribal tracts which were integral parts of the British Empire and where the agent was completely in charge of law and order. The agent of a protected tract or princely state usually resided outside the territory in his charge as opposed to a Resident who usually resided within his confines and was not infrequently, the District Collector of the adjoining British district.

Civil and criminal justice in agencies were usually administered through locally made laws and the Indian Penal Code was not applicable by default in these agencies.

List of agencies

Political agencies were created, merged or abolished at different times during the history of the British Raj.[2] This list includes all agencies, regardless of the historical period.

See also

References

  1. ^ Great Britain India Office. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.
  2. ^  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "British Empire". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.