Kathiawar Agency
| Kathiawar Agency | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agency of princely states in the British Raj | |||||||||
| 1819–1924 | |||||||||
Map of the Kathiawar Agency area | |||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1901 | 54,084 km2 (20,882 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1901 | 2,329,196 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1819 | ||||||||
• Formation of the Western India States Agency | 1924 | ||||||||
| |||||||||
The Kathiawar Agency, on the Kathiawar peninsula in the western part of the British Raj was a political unit of some 200 small princely states under the suzerainty of the Bombay Presidency.
The agency's headquarters were at Rajkot, the town where the Political Agent used to reside. He reported to the Political Department office at Bombay, Bombay Presidency.