Eastern States Agency
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The Eastern States Agency was an agency or grouping of princely states in eastern India, during the latter years of the Indian Empire. It was created in 1933, by the unification of the former Chhattisgarh States Agency and the Orissa States Agency; the agencies remained intact within the grouping. In 1936, the Bengal States Agency was added.
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1933–1948 | |||||||||||||
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Capital | Ranchi | ||||||||||||
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Government | Indirect imperial rule over a group of hereditary monarchies | ||||||||||||
Agent to the Governor-General | |||||||||||||
• 1933 (first) | E.C. Gibson, ICS[1] | ||||||||||||
Historical era | Interwar era • World War II | ||||||||||||
• Merger of former Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Orissa states | 1933 | ||||||||||||
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1936 | 154,570 km2 (59,680 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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