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{{Distinguish|North-West Frontier Province}}
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{{Infobox Former Subdivision

|conventional_long_name = North-Western Provinces
|common_name = NWP
|subdivision = Province
|nation = <br />[[Company rule in India|India under Company rule]] (till 1858)<br /> [[British Raj|India under the British Raj]] (from 1858)
|image_flag =British Raj Red Ensign.svg
|image_coat =
|image_map = Pope1880NorthWesternProv2.jpg
|image_map_caption = North-Western Provinces, constituted in 1836 from erstwhile Presidency of Agra
|capital = [[Agra]] (1836–1858), [[Allahabad]] (1858–1902)<ref name="Ashutosh Joshi 237">{{cite book |title=Town Planning Regeneration of Cities|author=Ashutosh Joshi|publisher=New India Publishing|date= 1 January 2008|isbn=978-8189422820 |page=237 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UFaGME0XDBkC&q=Allahabad+capital&pg=PA151 }}</ref>
|stat_area1= 9479
|stat_pop1 = 4500000
|stat_year1=1835
|p1 = Agra Presidency
|image_p1 = [[File:Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg|20px]]
|p2 =
|flag_p2 =
|s1 = United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
|image_s1 = [[File:British Raj Red Ensign.svg|20px]]
|s2 =
|flag_s2 =
|s3 =
|flag_s3 =
|s4 =
|flag_s4 =
|year_start = 1836
|event_start =
|year_end = 1902
|event1 = [[Delhi Territory]] transferred from N.W. Provinces to Punjab
|date_event1 = 1858
|event2 = [[Saugor and Nerbudda Territories]] separated from N.W. Provinces
|date_event2 = 1861
|event3 = [[Ajmer-Merwara|Ajmer]] separated from N.W. Provinces
|date_event3 = 1871
|event4 = The offices of [[List of Lieutenant-Governors of the North-Western Provinces and Chief Commissioners of Oudh|Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces and Chief Commissioner of Oudh]] were combined in the same person
|date_event4 = 1877
|today = {{flag|India}}
|native_name=|demonym=}}

The '''North-Western Provinces''' was an [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|administrative region]] in [[British India]]. The North-Western Provinces were established in 1836, through merging the administrative divisions of the [[Ceded and Conquered Provinces]]. In 1858, the nawab-ruled kingdom of [[Oudh]] was annexed and merged with the North-Western Provinces to form the renamed North-Western Provinces and Oudh. In 1902, this province was reorganized to form the [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]].<ref name=igi-XXIV-158>{{Harvnb|Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. XXIV|1908|p=158}}</ref> [[Allahabad]] served as its capital from 1858, when it also became the [[List of capitals of India|capital of India]] for a day.<ref name="Ashutosh Joshi 237">{{cite book |title=Town Planning Regeneration of Cities|author=Ashutosh Joshi|publisher=New India Publishing|date= 1 January 2008|isbn=978-8189422820 |page=237 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UFaGME0XDBkC&q=Allahabad+capital&pg=PA151 }}</ref>

==Area==

The province included all divisions of the present-day state of [[Uttar Pradesh]] with the exception of the [[Lucknow Division]] and [[Faizabad Division]] of [[Awadh]].<ref name=igi-XXIV-158/> Among other regions included at various times were: the ''[[Delhi Territory]]'', from 1836 until 1858, when the latter became part of the [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab Province]] of British India; [[Ajmer-Merwara|Ajmer]] and [[Ajmer-Merwara|Merwara]], from 1832 and 1846, respectively, until 1871, when [[Ajmer-Merwara]] became a minor province of British India; and the [[Saugor and Nerbudda Territories]] from 1853 until 1861, when they were absorbed into the [[Central Provinces]].<ref name=igi-XXIV-158/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.libraryindex.com/encyclopedia/pages/cpxleu6ps2/north-western-provinces-north-ganges.html |title=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=10 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201180945/https://www.libraryindex.com/encyclopedia/pages/cpxleu6ps2/north-western-provinces-north-ganges.html |archive-date=1 December 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Administration==
The ''North Western Provinces'' was governed by a Lieutenant-Governor, who was appointed by the [[East India Company]] from 1836 to 1858, and by the British Government from 1858 to 1902.<ref name=igi-XXIV-158/>

In 1856, after the annexation of [[Oudh State]], the ''North Western Provinces'' became part of the larger province of ''North Western Provinces and Oudh''. In 1902, the latter province was renamed the [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]]; in 1904, the region within the new ''United Provinces'' corresponding to the ''North Western Provinces'' was renamed the [[Agra Province]].<ref name=igi-V-72>{{Harvnb|Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. V|1908|p=72}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Chief Commissioners of Oudh]]
* [[List of Lieutenant Governors of the North-Western Provinces]]
* [[List of Lieutenant Governors of the North-Western Provinces and Chief Commissioners of Oudh]]
*[[Company rule in India]]
*[[British Raj]]
*[[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]]

[[File:NorthWesternProvincesIndia1857.jpg|right|thumb|250px|A map showing the new province of ''North-Western Provinces and Oudh'' in 1857]]

==Notes==
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==References==
*{{citation|title=Administration of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, April 1882 – November 1887|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fCguAAAAYAAJ|year=1887|publisher=Government Press, North-Western Provinces and Oudh|location=Allahabad}}
*{{citation|last=Bayly|first=C. A.|author-link=Christopher Bayly|title=Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion, 1770–1870|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xfo3AAAAIAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Cambridge University Press Archive|isbn=978-0-521-31054-3}}
*{{citation|author=Government of India. Legislative Dept|title=The N.-W. provinces and Oudh code: consisting of the Bengal regulations and the local acts of the Governor General in council in force in the North-Western provinces and Oudh, the acts of the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western provinces and Oudh in council, the regulation made under 33 Vict., Cap. 3 for the Tarai, and lists of the enactments which have been scheduled in force in, or extended to, the scheduled districts of the North-Western provinces by notification under the scheduled districts act, 1874; with a chronological table and an index|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6bgZAAAAYAAJ|year=1892|publisher=Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India|location=Calcutta}}
*{{Citation | last = Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. V | title = Abāzai to Arcot ("Agra Province" pp. 71–72) | publisher=Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council, Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Pp. viii, 1 map, 437. | year = 1908}}
*{{Citation | last = Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. XXIV | title = Travancore to Zīra ("United Provinces" pp. 132–276) | publisher=Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council, Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Pp. vi, 1 map, 437. | year = 1908}}

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MaynardPerkin72: small enhance information as per guidelines

->Billjones94 at 15:49, 19 July 2021