Haraoti and Tonk Agency

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Haraoti and Tonk Agency

A Political Charge in Rajputana, comprising the States of Bundi and Tonk and the chiefship of Shahpura, lying mostly in the south-east (jf Rajputana. The head- quarters of the Political Agent are ordinarily at Dcoli, a cantonment in the British District of Ajmer. The term ' Haraoti ' means the country of the Hara Rajputs (a sept of the great Chauhan clan), or, in other words, the territories of Bundi and Kotah. In former times, both these States were under the same I'olitical officer, who was styled Political Agent of Haraoti, but a separate Agent was appointed at Kotah in 1876. The Tonk State consists of six scattered districts, three in Rajputana and three in Central India ; the latter are to some extent under the political charge of certain officers of the Central India Agency. {See Chhabra, Pirawa, and Sironj.) The population of the Haraoti and Tonk Agency has varied from 644,480 in i88r and 739,390 in 1891 to 487,104 in 1901, the decrease of 34 per cent, during the last decade being due chiefly to the famine of 1899-1900 and the severe type of malarial fever which followed it. The total area is 5,178 square miles, and the density of population is 94 persons per square mile, as compared with 76 for Rajputana as a whole. In point of size the Agency ranks sixth, and as regards population, last among the political divisions of Rajputana. In 1901 Hindus formed 86 per cent, and Musalmans 10 per cent, of the total popu- lation. Particulars for the States and the chiefship in the Agency are given below : —

There are altogether 2,238 villages and 8 towns ; but with the exception of Tonk (38,759) and Bundi (19,313), the latter are very small.