The Punjab Hill States Agency was an administrative unit of
British India. The agency was created in
1936, and was composed of a number of
princely states in the present-day Indian states of
Himachal Pradesh and
Uttarakhand. The Punjab Hill States Agency was created out of the
Punjab States Agency, which was created in
1901. The states came under British suzerainty after the
Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814-16, and were known as the Simla Hill States. They later came under the authority of the British province of
Punjab, with the exception of
Tehri-Garhwal, which was under the authority of the
United Provinces. After Indian Independence in 1947, the states acceded to the
Government of India, most of the states became the new state of Himachal Pradesh, with Tehri-Garhwal becoming part of
Uttar Pradesh. In 2000, the northern portion of Uttar Pradesh, including the former state of Tehri-Garhwal, became the new Indian state of Uttarakhand.
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