The North-Western Provinces was an

administrative region Administrative divisions (also administrative units, administrative regions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divi ...

British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in South Asia. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one form or another ...

. The North-Western Provinces were established in 1836, through merging the administrative divisions of the

Ceded and Conquered Provinces The Ceded and Conquered Provinces constituted a region in northern Company rule in India, India that was ruled by the British East India Company from 1805 to 1834; it corresponded approximately—in present-day India—to all regions ...

. In 1858, the Nawab-ruled kingdom of

Oudh The Kingdom of Awadh (, , also Oudh State, Kingdom of Oudh, Awadh Subah, or Awadh State) was a Mughal subah, then an independent kingdom, and lastly a British protectorate in the Awadh region of North India until its annexation by the Br ...

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 The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh was a province of India under the British Raj, which existed from 22 March 1902 to 1937; the official name was shortened by the Government of India Act 1935 to United Provinces (UP), by which the province ...

Allahabad Prayagraj (, ; ISO 15919, ISO: ), formerly and colloquially known as Allahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi, Varanasi (Benar ...

served as its capital from 1858, when it also became the capital of India for a day.

Area

The province included all divisions of the present-day state of

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

with the exception of the Lucknow Division and

Faizabad Division Ayodhya division (formerly Faizabad division) is one of the 18 administrative geographical units (i.e. division) of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Ayodhya city is the administrative headquarters of the division. The government ...

Awadh Awadh (), known in British Raj historical texts as Avadh or Oudh, is a historical region in northern India and southern Nepal, now constituting the North-central portion of Uttar Pradesh. It is roughly synonymous with the ancient Kosala Regio ...

. Among other regions included at various times were: the ''

Delhi Territory The Delhi Territory was an administrative region of British rule in India, British India which comprised Delhi plus Gurgaon district, Gurgaon, Hisar district, Hissar, Sirsa district, Sirsa (then known as Bhattiana), Karnal district, Karnal and ...

'', from 1836 until 1858, when the latter became part of the Punjab Province of British India;

Ajmer Ajmer () is a city in the north-western States and union territories of India, Indian state of Rajasthan. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the Ajmer district and Ajmer division. It lies at the centre of Rajasthan, earning it the ...

and Merwara, from 1832 and 1846, respectively, until 1871, when

Ajmer-Merwara Ajmer-Merwara (also known as Ajmir Province, and Ajmer-Merwara-Kekri) was a former province of British India in the historical Ajmer region. The territory was ceded to the British by Daulat Rao Sindhia by a treaty on 25 June 1818. It was unde ...

became a minor province of British India; and the

Saugor and Nerbudda Territories The Saugor and Nerbudda Territories, was a region of British India, located in the central part of present-day Madhya Pradesh state in central India. It included the present-day districts of Sagar (Saugor), Damoh, Jabalpur, and Narsinghpur. ...

from 1853 until 1861, when they were absorbed into the

Central Provinces The Central Provinces was a province of British India. It comprised British conquests from the Mughals and Marathas in central India, and covered parts of present-day Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra states. Nagpur was the primary ...

Administration

The ''North Western Provinces'' was governed by a Lieutenant-Governor, who was appointed by the

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...

from 1836 to 1858, and by the British Government from 1858 to 1902. In 1856, after the annexation of

Oudh State The Kingdom of Awadh (, , also Oudh State, Kingdom of Oudh, Awadh Subah, or Awadh State) was a Mughal subah, then an independent kingdom, and lastly a British protectorate in the Awadh region of North India until its annexation by the B ...

, the ''North Western Provinces'' became part of the larger province of ''North Western Provinces and Oudh''. In 1902, the latter province was renamed the

; in 1904, the region within the new ''United Provinces'' corresponding to the ''North Western Provinces'' was renamed the

Agra Province Agra Province was a part of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh of British India during the closing decades of the British Raj, from 1904 until 1947; it corresponded (under Section 4(4) of United Provinces Act 1, 1904) to the former regions, ...

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