An agency was a political unit of the pre-1947 Indian Empire which managed the relations of British India with the sub-continent's princely states.
At one time, the list consisted of:
- Alwar Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)
- Baghelkhand Agency March 1871 / 1933
- Baluchistan Agency
- Banas Kantha Agency
- Baroda, Western States, and Gujarat Agency
- Bhopal Agency 1818 / 1947-08-15
- Bhopawar Agency 1882 / 1925 (merge with Malwa to form Malwa and Bhopawar Agency)
- Bikaner Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)
- Bundelkhand Agency 1811
- Central India Agency 1854
- Deccan States Agency 1930s
- Eastern Rajputana States Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)
- Eastern States Agency 1930s
- Gilgit Agency 1889
- Kotah-Jhalawar Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)
- Haraoti Agency
- Haraoti-Tonk Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency)
- Kathiawar Agency (Bombay Presidency)
- Kolaba Agency
- Kolhapur Agency
- Madras States Agency 1930s
- Mahi Kantha Agency (Bombay Presidency)
- Malwa Agency
- 1895 / 1925 (merge with Bhopawar Agency to Malwa and Bhopawar Agency)
- 1934 / 1947
- Malwa and Bhopawar Agency 1925 / 1927 rename to Malwa and Southern States Agency
- Malwa and Southern States Agency 1927 rename from Malwa and Bhopawar Agency / 1934 rename to Malwa
- North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA)
- North-West Frontier States Agency
- Palanpur Agency 1819 (belong to Bombay Presidency, merged 10 October 1924 in WISA)
- Poona Agency
- Punjab States Agency 1930s
- Rajputana Agency (consisting of three residencies and six agencies)
- Rewa Kantha Agency (Bombay Presidency)
- Sabar Kantha Agency
- Western India States Agency (WISA)
- Western Rajputana States Agency (belonging to Rajputana Agency, part of Mewar Residency until 1906, when it was separated)
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