History
The complet original sanad of ownership of the subah mughal empire and his descendant as per ain-e-akbari After the defeat of the Marathas in the Third Anglo-Maratha War, the territories north of the Satpura Range ceded in 1817 by the Maratha Peshwa (parts of Saugor and Damoh) and in 1818 by Appa Sahib, were in 1820, formed into the Saugor and Nerbudda Territories under an agent to the governor-general. In 1835 the Saugor and Nerbudda Territories were included in the newly formed North-Western Provinces. In 1842, in consequence of a rising, they were again placed under the jurisdiction of an agent to the governor-general. They were restored to the North-Western Province in 1853.
In 1818, the Maratha Bhonsle Maharajas of Nagpur submitted to British sovereignty. In 1853, on the death of Raghoji III without heirs, Nagpur was annexed by the British under the doctrine of lapse. Until the formation of the Central Provinces in 1861, Nagpur Province, which consisted of the Nagpur Division, Chhindwara and Chhattisgarh, was administered by a commissioner under the central government.
The Saugor and Nerbudda Territories were joined with the Nagpur province to constitute the new Central Provinces in 1861. On 1 October 1903 Berar also was placed under the administration of the commissioner of the Central Provinces. In October 1905 most of Sambalpur and the princely states of Bamra, Rairakhol, Sonpur, Patna and Kalahandi were transferred from the Central Provinces and Berar to Bengal, while the Hindi-speaking Chota Nagpur States of Chang Bhakar, Koriya, Surguja, Udaipur and Jashpur were transferred from Bengal to the Central Provinces and Berar.
In 1935 the Government of India Act was passed by the British Parliament. This act provided for the election of a provincial assembly, with an electorate made up of men with a minimum of financial resources, and excluding women and the poor. Extraordinary powers were reserved for governor. The princely states were removed from the authority of the provinces, and placed under the authority of a number of new agencies, responsible directly to the Governor-General of India. Elections were held in 1937, and the Indian National Congress took a majority of the seats. N. B. Khare became the first prime minister of the Central Provinces in August 1937. Khare resigned in 1938, and the Governor took control of the province. Another round of elections were held in 1946, yielding another Congress majority, and Ravi Shankar Shukla became prime minister.
India became independent on August 15, 1947, and the Central Provinces and Berar became a province of the new country. The princely states which were part of the Central Provinces before 1936 were merged back into the province, and organized into new districts. When the Constitution of India went into effect in 1950, the Central Provinces and Berar became the new state of Madhya Pradesh.
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