Eastern States Agency

Eastern States Agency
1933–1948
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The Eastern States Agency in the Indian Empire in 1940
Capital	Ranchi
States under AGG for Eastern States	Kingdom of Tripura Cooch Behar State Mayurbhanj State Other 37 states
Government	Indirect imperial rule over a group of hereditary monarchies
Agent to the Governor-General
• 1933 (first)	E.C. Gibson, ICS[1]
Historical era	Interwar era • World War II
• Merger of former Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Orissa states	1933
• Cooch Behar and Tripura added	1936
• Accession to the Indian Union	1948
Area
1936	154,570 km2 (59,680 sq mi)
Preceded by Succeeded by Central Provinces Bihar and Orissa Bengal Eastern States Union

The Eastern States Agency was an agency or grouping of princely states in eastern India, during the latter years of the Indian Empire. It was created in 1933, by the unification of the former Chhattisgarh States Agency and the Orissa States Agency; the agencies remained intact within the grouping. In 1936, the Bengal States Agency was added.