Punjab States Agency

The Punjab States Agency was a political office of the British Indian Empire. The agency was created in the 1930s, on the model of the Central India Agency and Rajputana Agency. It dealt with forty princely states in northwest India. formerly dealt with by the British province of the Punjab province. The Punjab Hill States agency was created from it in 1936.

Punjab States Agency
British Residency
1930–1947
Coat of arms
Map of the British Punjab in 1909.
Historical era		New Imperialism
-	Established	1930
-	British withdrawal from India	1947

Princely state
Salute state Chamber of Princes Doctrine of lapse Privy Purse Instrument of Accession
Individual residencies
Hyderabad Jammu and Kashmir Travancore Sikkim
Agencies
Baluchistan Deccan States Gwalior North-West Frontier Punjab States Rajputana Central India Eastern States
Lists
States by region States by name

After 1947, most of the states agreed to join the Union of India. The rest joined the Dominion of Pakistan.