North-West Frontier States Agency
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North-West Frontier States Agency was one of the agencies of British India
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It comprised the Princely State
s associated with the North-West Frontier Province, (now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa).
Agencies included the Dir Swat and Chitral Agency and the Deputy Commissioner of Hazara acting as the Political Agent for Amb and Phulra.
Agencies of British India
An agency was an administrative unit of India managing the relations of British India with the sub-continent's princely states.At one time, the list consisted of:* Alwar Agency *Baghelkhand Agency March 1871 / 1933...
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It comprised the Princely State
Princely state
A Princely State was a nominally sovereign entitity of British rule in India that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule such as suzerainty or paramountcy.-British relationship with the Princely States:India under the British Raj ...
s associated with the North-West Frontier Province, (now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa).
Agencies included the Dir Swat and Chitral Agency and the Deputy Commissioner of Hazara acting as the Political Agent for Amb and Phulra.
States
- AmbAmb (princely state)Amb was a princely state of the former British Indian Empire. In 1947, by the Indian Independence Act 1947, the British abandoned their supremacy, and following the Partition of India Amb's Nawab decided to give up his state's independence by acceding to the new country of Pakistan...
- Chitral
- Dir
- Nawagai (Bajaur)
- Phulra
- Swat