North-Western Provinces

North-Western Provinces
Province of India under Company rule (till 1858) India under the British Raj (from 1858)
1836–1902
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North-Western Provinces, constituted in 1836 from erstwhile Presidency of Agra
Capital	Agra (1836–1858), Allahabad (1858–1902)[1]
Area
• 1835	9,479 km2 (3,660 sq mi)
Population
• 1835	4,500,000
History
• Established	1836
• Delhi Territory transferred from N.W. Provinces to Punjab	1858
• Saugor and Nerbudda Territories separated from N.W. Provinces	1861
• Ajmer separated from N.W. Provinces	1871
• The offices of Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces and Chief Commissioner of Oudh were combined in the same person	1877
• Disestablished	1902
Preceded by Succeeded by Agra Presidency Oudh State United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
Today part of	India

India (North-West Provinces) Act 1835
Act of Parliament
Long title	An Act to authorise the Court of Directors of the East India Company to suspend the Execution of the Provisions of the Act of the Third and Fourth William the Fourth, Chapter Eighty-five, so far as they relate to the Creation of the Government of Agra.
Citation	5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 52
Dates
Royal assent	31 August 1835
Other legislation
Amends	Government of India Act 1833

The North-Western Provinces was an administrative region in British India. The North-Western Provinces were established in 1836, through merging the administrative divisions of the Ceded and Conquered Provinces. In 1858, the Nawab-ruled kingdom of Oudh 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.^[2] Allahabad served as its capital from 1858, when it also became the capital of India for a day.^[1]