The North-West Frontier States Agency was one of the colonial
Agencies of British India
An agency of British India was an internally autonomous or semi-autonomous subdivision of India whose external affairs were governed by an agent designated by the Viceroy of India.Great Britain India Office. '' The Imperial Gazetteer of India' ...
exercising
indirect rule
Indirect rule was a system of governance used by the British and others to control parts of their colonial empires, particularly in Africa and Asia, which was done through pre-existing indigenous power structures. Indirect rule was used by vario ...
.
It comprised the
Princely States associated with the
North-West Frontier Province
The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP; ps, شمال لویدیځ سرحدي ولایت, ) was a Chief Commissioner's Province of British India, established on 9 November 1901 from the north-western districts of the Punjab Province. Followi ...
(now
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, in
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...
).
Subagencies were the Dir, Swat and Chitral Agency and the Deputy Commissioner of
Hazara acting as the
Political Agent for Amb and Phulra.
Princely States
Then the only
salute state was :
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Chitral, title Mehtar, enjoying a Hereditary salute of 11-guns
One then non-salute state would later outrank Chitral by Pakistani presidential grant of a Hereditary salute of 15-guns in 1966 :
*
Swat, title Wali
The rest remained non-salute states :
*
Amb, title Nawab
*
Dir, title Nawab
*
Phulra(h), title Nawab
Agencies of British India
History of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
North-West Frontier Province
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