The
Deccan States Agency was an administrative unit of
British India. The agency was created in the 1930's, and was composed of a number of
princely states in western India, located in the present-day Indian states of
Maharashtra and
Karnataka. The Deccan States Agency was combined with the residency of
Kolhapur, and was also called the
Deccan States Agency and Kolhapur Residency. Before the creation of the Deccan States Agency, the states were under the authority of the British province of
Bombay Presidency. After Indian Independence in 1947, the states acceded to the
Government of India, and were integrated into the Indian state of
Bombay. In 1956 the southern portion of Bombay state was transferred to
Mysore State (later renamed Karnataka), while the rest of Bombay State was divided into the new states of Maharashtra and
Gujarat in
1960.
States of the Deccan States Agency