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The Dangs: Cleanup and typo fixing, typo(s) fixed: km² → km2 (11)

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{{Infobox former subdivision
|native_name = सूरत સુરત سورت
|conventional_long_name =Surat Agency
|common_name =Surat Agency
|nation = [[British India]]
|status_text = [[Agencies of British India|Agency of British India]]
|era =
|year_start = 1880
|date_start =
|event_start = Abolition of the Khandesh Agency
|year_end = 1933
|date_end =
|event_end = Formation of the [[Baroda and Gujarat States Agency]]
|event1 =
|date_event1 =
|p1 = Khandesh
|s1 = Baroda and Gujarat States Agency
|flag_p1 = British Raj Red Ensign.svg
|flag_s1 = British Raj Red Ensign.svg
|image_flag = British Raj Red Ensign.svg
|image_coat =
|image_map = Surat Agency in Gujarat during British India 1880-1933.svg
|image_map_caption = Surat Agency within Gujarat
|stat_area1 = 5076
|stat_year1 = 1901
|stat_pop1 = 179975
|footnotes =
}}
[[File:Surat Agency with all princely states with labels British India 1880-1933.svg|thumb|Surat Agency with all princely states with labels British India 1880-1933|350px]]
[[File:Bansda and Dharampur, 1896.jpg|thumb|Bansda and Dharampur, 1896]]
{{princely states topics}}
The '''Surat Agency''' was one of the [[agencies of British India]] in the [[Bombay Presidency]].<ref name=EB1911>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Surat |volume=26 |page=117}}</ref>

==History==
This agency was formed in the 19th century as the '''Khandesh Agency''', after the region of [[Khandesh]], becoming the Surat Agency in 1880.<ref name=i>''The Indian Year Book,'' Volume 11 by Bennett, Coleman & Company, 1924</ref> Around 1900 the Dangs were incorporated and in 1933 it was abolished and became part of the [[Baroda and Gujarat States Agency]].

Finally in 1944, towards the end of the British Raj, the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency was merged with the [[Western India States Agency]] to form the larger [[Baroda, Western India and Gujarat States Agency]].

The headquarters of the Surat Agency were at [[Surat]], where the Political Agent who reported to the Political Department office in [[Bombay]], used to reside.<ref>William Lee-Warner, ''The Native States Of India''. (1910)</ref>

==States==
The agency included three 9-[[gun salute]] [[princely states]] and the Dangs.<ref name=EB1911/>
===Salute States===
*[[Sachin State|Sachin]]
*[[Bansda State|Bansda]]
*[[Dharampur State|Dharampur]]
===The Dangs===
The '''Dangs''' were a group of small states in what is now the [[Dang District, India|Dang district]] of [[Gujarat State]].
{| class="wikitable"
|- class="hintergrundfarbe5"
!State
!Population ('000);<ref name="GAZ">Hunter, W. W.; ''Imperial Gazetteer of India;'' London ²1885, Vol. IV, S 115-6</ref>
!Revenue (1881, [[Rupie|Rs.]])
!Ruler's title. Notes

|-
|[[Dang Pimpri]]
|3,6
|3106
|388 km2

|-
|[[Dang Wadhwan]]
|0,253
|147
|ca. 12 km2. Not to be confused with [[Wadhwan State]] whose capital was [[Wadhwan]].

|-
|[[Dang Ketak Kadupada]]
|0,218
|155
|
|-
|[[Daher-Amala state|Dang Amala]]
|5,3
|2885; 1891: 5300
|Raja. 307 km2

|-
|[[Dang Chinchli]]
|1,67; 1891: ca. 1,4
|601
|ca. 70 km2

|-
|[[Dang Pimpladevi]]
|0,134
|120
|ca. 10 km2

|-
|[[Dang Palasbishar]] (= Palasvihir)
|0,223
|230
|ca. 5 km2

|-
|[[Dang Auchar]]
|ca. 500
|201
|< 21 km2

|-
|[[Dang Derbhauti]]
|4,891; 1891: ca. 5
|3649
|Raja. 196 km2

|-
|[[Dang Gadhavi]] (= Gadhi)
|6,309
|5125
|Raja.

|-
|[[Dang Shivbara]]
|0,346
|422
|ca. 12 km2

|-
|[[Dang Kirli]] (= Kirali)
|0,167
|512
|31 km2

|-
|[[Dang Wasurna]]
|6,177
|2275
|
|-
|[[Dang Dhude]] (= Bilbari)
|1,45; 1891: 1418
|85
|< 5 km2

|-
|[[Dang Surgana]]
|14
|11469
|
|-
|[[Machhali]]
|1.1;
|4745
|35
|}

==See also==
*[[Western India States Agency]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:Agencies of British India]]
[[Category:History of Gujarat]]
[[Category:1933 disestablishments in India]]
[[Category:1880 establishments in India]]
[[Category:Bombay Presidency]]

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Surat Agency - Revision history

->Iridescent 2: /* The Dangs */Cleanup and typo fixing, typo(s) fixed: km² → km2 (11)

->Iridescent 2: /* The Dangs */Cleanup and typo fixing, typo(s) fixed: km² → km² (11)