Districts of British India
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The districts of British India were administrative units of the Government of the British Raj or Indian Empire. Districts were generally subdivisions of the provinces and divisions of British India[1]
History
[edit]Districts, often known as zillas in vernacular, were established as subdivisions of the provinces and divisions of British India that were under Bengal Presidency. Then it was established as subdivisions the most Provinces of British India [2]
Most of the districts that were created during the British Raj became districts of India after the independence of India and some districts were joining Pakistan.
Historical districts
[edit]The following list includes only districts of British India that were active during the partition of India in 1947
Districts in the Assam province
[edit]Districts
[edit]- Darrang district
- Goalpara district
- Kamrup district
- Lakhimpur district
- Nowgong district
- Sibsagar district
Frontier tracts
[edit]Hill's districts
[edit]- Garo Hills district
- Khasi and Jaintia Hills district
- Lushai Hills district
- Naga Hills district
- Naga tribal areas
Plain districts
[edit]Districts in the Baluchistan Province
[edit]- Bolan district
- Chagai district
- Loralai district
- Quetta-Pishin district
- Sibi district (including Marri-Bugti County)
- Zhob district
Districts in the Bengal Presidency
[edit]During the partition of India in 1947, Bengal had 28 districts in 5 divisions
[edit]Burdwan division (Chuchura)
[edit]- Bankura district
- Birbhum district
- Bardhaman district
- Howrah district
- Hooghly district
- Midnapore district
Presidency division (Calcutta)
[edit]- Calcutta district
- Jessore district
- Khulna district
- Murshidabad district
- Nadia district
- 24 Paraganas district
Rajshahi division (Jalpaiguri)
[edit]- Bogra district
- Dinajpur district
- Darjeeling district
- Jalpaiguri district
- Malda district
- Rajshahi district
- Rangpur district
- Pabna district
Districts in the Bihar Province
[edit]Chota Nagpur division (Ranchi)
[edit]Tirhut division (Muzaffarpur)
[edit]Districts in the Bombay Presidency
[edit]- Ahmedabad district
- Ahmednagar district
- Belguam district
- Bharuch district
- Bijapur district
- Bomby City district
- Bomby Suburban district
- Colaba district
- Dharwar district
- East Khandesh district
- Khira district
- Nasik district
- North Kanara district
- Panchmahal district
- Poona district
- Ratnagiri district
- Satara district
- Sholapur district
- Surat district
- Thana district
- West Khandesh district
District of Central Provinces and Berar
[edit]Berar division (Amraoti)
[edit]Chhattisgarh division (Raipur)
[edit]District in the Jammu and Kashmir State
[edit]Districts
[edit]Jaigirs
[edit]Frontier districts
[edit]Districts
[edit]Agency
[edit]District in the Hyderabad State
[edit]Gulshanabad division (Medak)
[edit]Districts in the Madras Presidency
[edit]- Anantapur district
- Bellary district
- Chingleput district
- Chittoor district
- Coimbatore District (Madras Presidency)
- Cuddapah district
- East Godavari district
- Guntur district
- Krishna district
- Kurnool district
- Madura District (Madras Presidency)
- Malabar district
- Nellore district
- North Arcot District
- Rannad district
- Salem district
- South Arcot district
- South Canara district
- Tanjore district
- Tinnevely district
- Trichinopoly district
- Vizagapatam district
- West Godavari district
District in the Mysore State
[edit]- Bangalore district
- Chitaldrug district
- Hassan district
- Kadur district
- Kolar district
- Mandya district
- Mysore district
- Shimoga district
- Tumkur district
Districts of North-West Frontier province
[edit]- Bannu district
- Dera Ismail Khan district
- Hazara district
- Kohat district
- Mardan district
- Peshawar district
Districts of Orissa province
[edit]- Balasore district
- Cuttack district
- Ganjam district
- Koraput district
- Puri district
- Sambalpur district
Districts of Punjab province
[edit]- Amritsar district
- Gujranwala district
- Gurdaspur district
- Lahore district
- Shekhupura district
- Sialkot district
- Dera Ghazi Khan district
- Jhang district
- Lyallpur district
- Montgomery district
- Multan district
- Muzaffargarh district
- Attock district
- Gujrat district
- Jhelum district
- Mianwali district
- Rawalpindi district
- Shahpur district
Districts of Sind province
[edit]- Dadu district
- Hyderabad district
- Karachi district
- Larkana district
- Nawabshah district
- Sukkur district
- Thar Parkar district
- Upper Sindh Frontier district
Districts of United Provinces
[edit]- Bahraich district
- Bara Banki district
- Faizabad district
- Gonda district
- Pratapgarh district
- Sultanpur district
Kumaon division (Nainital)
[edit]Rohilkhand division (Bareilly)
[edit]- Bareilly district
- Bijnaur district
- Budaun district
- Moradabad district
- Pilibhit district
- Shahjahanpur district
Other districts
[edit]- Ajmer district (the only District of Ajmer-Merwara Province)
- Coorg district (the only District of Coorg Province)
Former districts
[edit]- Bassein district
- Bhilsa district
- Chanderi district
- Delhi district
- Ellichpur district
- Isagarh district
- Jungle Mahals
- Jungle Terry
- Khandesh district
- Merwara district
- Muhamdi district
- Neemuch district
- North Bareilly district
- Sironj district
- Thal-Chotiali
- Wun district
See also
[edit]- List of districts in India
- Subdivisions of British India
- Territorial evolution of the British Empire
References
[edit]- ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India. Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907-1909
- ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India, vol. V, 1908
External links
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