Madhya Bharat

Madhya Bharat
Madhya Bharat
State of India
1948–1956
	; Location of Madhya Bharat in India, 1951
Area
• 1881	194,000 km2 (75,000 sq mi)
Population
• 1881	9,261,907
History
• Abolition of the Central India Agency	1948
• Creation of Madhya Pradesh State	1956
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Central India Agency
	Gwalior Residency
Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Bharat, also known as Malwa Union,^[1] was an Indian state in west-central India, created on 28 May 1948^[2] from twenty-five princely states which until 1947 had been part of the Central India Agency,^[3] with Jiwajirao Scindia as its Rajpramukh.

The union had an area of 46,478 square miles (120,380 km²).^[4] Gwalior was the winter capital and Indore was the summer capital. It was bordered by the states of Bombay (presently Gujarat and Maharashtra) to the southwest, Rajasthan to the northwest, Uttar Pradesh to the north, and Vindhya Pradesh to the east, and Bhopal State and Madhya Pradesh to the southeast. The population was mostly Hindu and Hindi-speaking.

On 1 November 1956, Madhya Bharat, together with the states of Vindhya Pradesh and Bhopal State, was merged into Madhya Pradesh.

^ India States
^ "Bhind-History". Bhind district website. Archived from the original on 19 June 2009.
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Malwa" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 518.
^ Bhattacharyya, P. K. (1977). Historical Geography of Madhya Pradesh from Early Records. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 53–4. ISBN 9788120833944.