Mewar Residency

Mewar Residency
Map of Rajputana Agency, showing Ajmer-Mewar, 1909

Mewar Residency was a residency of British India, during the British Raj, which was one of the three residencies of the Rajputana Agency, and had its headquarters at Udaipur, and included the state of Mewar (Udaipur) [1]

The Western Rajputana States Agency, which included the states of Dungarpur, Partabgarh and Banswara [2], was also part of Mewar Residency until 1906, before it separated.

See also

References

  1. ^ Rajputana Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, 1911.
  2. ^ Rajputana – Administration The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908, v. 21, p. 143.
  • Gazetteers of Mewar Residency, Published by International Documentation Centre, 1906.
  • Rajputana Gazetteers, Vol. II-A & Vol. II-B : The Mewar Residency/text and statistical tables compiled by K.D. Erskine. First published in 1908. 1992.
  • Later Mewar, by Ramavallabh Somani. Published by Shantidevi Somani, 1985.
  • Mewar Residency, by Rajputana (Agency), R.D. Erskine. Published by Vintage Books, 1996. ISBN 8185326541. Online at Digital Library of India

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

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