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[[File:Rajputana 1909.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Map of [[Rajputana Agency]], showing '''Ajmer-Mewar''', 1909]]<br />
'''Mewar Residency''' was a political subdivision of [[Rajputana Agency]] in [[British India]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006213507|title=Imperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series Rajputana|publisher=Superintendent of Government Printing|year=1908|location=Calcutta|pages=106–168}}</ref> After treaty relations between Mewar and the East India Company commenced in 1818, the British government created a political sub-division known as Mewar Agency with its headquarters in Nimuch. In 1860–61, the headquarters were moved to Udaipur and, in 1881–82, the designation was changed from 'Agency' to 'Residency.'<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_S7dCkiyLJ6EC|title=Studies in Indian History: Rajasthan Through the Ages Vol. 5|publisher=Sarup & Sons|year=2008|isbn=9788176258418|editor-last=Gupta|editor-first=R.K.|location=New Delhi|pages=65|editor-last2=Bakshi|editor-first2=S.R.}}</ref> As of 1908, the Mewar Residency consisted of the four states of [[Udaipur State|Udaipur]], [[Banswara State|Banswara]], [[Dungarpur State|Dungarpur]], and Partabgarh,<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Udaipur |volume=27 |page=554}}</ref> with headquarters in [[Udaipur]].<ref name=":0" /><br />
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The [[Western Rajputana States Agency]], which included the states of [[Banswara State|Banswara]], [[Dungarpur State|Dungarpur]] and [[Pratapgarh State|Partabgarh]],<ref>[https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V21_149.gif Rajputana – Administration] ''[[The Imperial Gazetteer of India]], 1908, v. 21, ''p. 143.''</ref> was part of Mewar Residency until 1906, before it separated.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Mewar]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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* ''Gazetteers of Mewar Residency'', Published by International Documentation Centre, 1906.<br />
* ''Rajputana Gazetteers, Vol. II-A & Vol. II-B : The Mewar Residency/text and statistical tables compiled by K.D. Erskine''. First published in 1908. 1992.<br />
* ''Later Mewar'', by Ramavallabh Somani. Published by Shantidevi Somani, 1985.<br />
* ''Mewar Residency'', by Rajputana (Agency), R.D. Erskine. Published by Vintage Books, 1996. {{ISBN|81-85326-54-1}}. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090116091522/http://dli.iiit.ac.in/cgi-bin/Browse/scripts/use_scripts/advnew/metainfo.cgi Online at ''Digital Library of India'']<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090208074144/http://www.mewarindia.com/ency/mew.html Mewar Encyclopedia]<br />
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