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{{For|disambiguation|Chota Nagpur (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox former subdivision
|native_name = छोटा नागपुर
|conventional_long_name =Chota Nagpur Division<br>South-West Frontier
|common_name =Chota Nagpur Division
|nation = [[British India]]
|status_text = [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|Division of British India]]
|era =
|year_start = 1854
|date_start =
|event_start= Creation of the division
|year_end = 1947
|date_end =
|event_end= [[Independence of India]]
|event1 =
|date_event1 =
|p1 =Bihar and Orissa Province
|s1 =Odisha
|flag_p1 = British Raj Red Ensign.svg
|flag_s1 = Flag of India.svg
|image_flag =British Raj Red Ensign.svg
|image_coat =
|image_map =Bengalpresidency 1858.jpg
|image_map_caption = 1858 map of the Bengal Presidency with the 'South-West Frontier States' in the SW
|stat_area1 =70161
|stat_year1 =1901
|stat_pop1 = 4900429
|footnotes =
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[[File:Chota Nagpur area-IGI.jpg|thumb|265px|[[Chota Nagpur Plateau]] area. Political Divisions. 1909 [[Imperial Gazetteer of India]] map section.]]
'''Chota Nagpur Division''', also known as the '''South-West Frontier''', was an administrative division of [[British India]]. It included most of the present-day state of [[Jharkhand]] as well as adjacent portions of [[West Bengal]], [[Orissa, India|Orissa]], and [[Chhattisgarh]].

==History==

Chota Nagpur division was a hilly and forested area. The region came under the control of the British in the 18th and 19th centuries, and was annexed to the [[Bengal Presidency]], the largest province of British India. After the [[Kol rebellion]] of 1831-2, the division was exempted by Regulation XIII of 1833 from the general laws and regulations governing Bengal, and every branch of the administration was vested in an officer appointed by the supreme Government and called the Agent to the [[Governor-General of India]] for the South-West Frontier.

In 1854 the designation of South-West Frontier Agency was changed to Chota Nagpur and it began to be administered as a [[Non-regulation province]] under the Lieutenant Governor of the then Bihar. In 1855-56 there was the great uprising of the Santhals against the British but was brutally suppressed. was changed to Chota Nagpur by Act XX of that year, and was administered thereafter as a [[non-regulation province]] under the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal Presidency. The title of the chief administrative officer was changed from Agent to Commissioner, and the officers in charge of the districts became Deputy Commissioners. The Commissioner exercised general control over the [[Chota Nagpur States]]. The present Divisional Commissioner is Shri. Surendra Singh Meena of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS)

Chota Nagpur Division became part of the new province of [[Bihar and Orissa]] when it was created in 1912. In 1936 the province was split into the separate provinces of [[Bihar Province|Bihar]] and [[Orissa Province|Orissa]], and the princely states were placed under the authority of the [[Eastern States Agency]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://princelystates.com/ArchivedFeatures/fa-02-01.shtml |title=Rice, Ron (2001). New Indian States, ''Princely States Report'', January 2001. |access-date=2006-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060321223204/http://www.princelystates.com/ArchivedFeatures/fa-02-01.shtml |archive-date=2006-03-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Administration==

The administrative headquarters of the division was at [[Ranchi]]. The total area of the division was 27,101 square miles (70,161 km<sup>2</sup>.), and the population was 4,900,429 in 1901. In 1901 [[Hinduism|Hindus]] constituted 68.5% of the total population, [[animism|animists]] 22.7%, [[Islam|Muslims]] 5.7%, [[Christianity|Christians]] 2.9%, and 853 [[Jainism|Jains]]. The [[Chota Nagpur States]], a group of [[princely state]]s, was under the political authority of the division's commissioner.<ref>Hunter, William Wilson, Sir, et al. (1908). ''[[Imperial Gazetteer of India]]'', Volume 12. 1908-1931; Clarendon Press, Oxford.</ref>

===Districts===
The division included five districts:
* [[Hazaribagh District|Hazaribagh]]
*[[Ranchi District|Ranchi]]
*[[Palamu District|Palamu]]
*[[Manbhum]]
*[[Singhbhum]]

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==See also==
*[[Chota Nagpur Tributary States]]

==References==
{{reflist}}
* Goswami Prodipto, Untold Story of Chota Nagpur: Its Journey with the Colonial Army 1767-1947, Chennai: Notion Press (2020)

==External links==
*{{Cite book|title=Bengal District Gazetteers: B Volume : Statistics, 1900-1901 to 1910-11|chapter=Chota Nagpu Tributary|url=https://archive.org/details/bengaldistrictg00indigoog|year=1905|publisher=Bihar and Orissa Govt. Press}}

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