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This article has been extracted from <br/>

THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908.<br/>

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

=Agar=

Town and British military station in the Shajapur district of
the Gwalior State, Central India, situated in 23 degree 43' N. and 76 degree 1' E., 
1,765 feet above sea-level, 41 miles by metalled road from Ujjain. 
Population (1901), 10,442, ol whom 3,990 persons reside in the military
station. The town is picturesquely placed between two large lakes, and 
is surrounded by a battlemented wall built in the eighteenth century. 

Agar takes its name from one Agra Bhil, who founded a settlement on 
this site in the tenth century. It was seized almost immediately by the 
Jhala Rajputs, who continued in possession until the eighteenth century, 
when it fell to Jaswant Rao Ponwar of Dhar. In 1801 the district was 
overrun by Bapuji Sindhia, who devastated the town, but it was restored 
by Daulat Rao Sindhia a few years later. Until 1904 Agar was the 
head-quarters of a district of the same name. 

A considerable traffic in 
grain and cotton is carried on, and two ginning factories are at work. In 
the Madhoganj quarter, outside the town, are situated the public offices, 
the kamasdar court, a school, a State post office, and a hospital. 

The military station lies to the north of the native town, from which 
it is separated by the Rataria Talao (or lake), being picturesquely 
situated beside the lake and surrounded by fine trees. It was first 
occupied in 1844 as a cantonment for the local corps. In 1857 it was 
held by the 3rd Regiment of Infantry, Gwalior Contingent, and some 
guns from the Mehidpur Contingent. On July 4 the troops mutinied, 
killing some of their officers ; but a party of six men, four women, and 
three children escaped, and, after many hardships, finally reached 
British territory south of the Narbada 1 . 

Since 1858 Agar has been 
garrisoned by the Central India Horse, one of the new local corps raised 
in place ol those which had mutinied. From 1860 to 1895 Agar was also 
the head-quarters of the Western Malwa Agency, the commandant of the 
regiment holding collateral political charge. On the creation of the 
present Malwa Agency, certain minor jurisdictional powers were 
assigned to the commandant, who exercises the powers of a second-class 
Magistrate within the station limits.