Gwalior Residency
Gwalior Residency was a political office in the British Indian Empire, which existed from 1782 until the British withdrawal from India in 1947. The Gwalior Residency was placed under the Central India Agency in 1854, and separated from it in 1921. States under the residency The Gwalior residency dealt with a number of Princely States of Central India. Salute states, in order of precedence : principally Gwalior State, title Maharaja Scindia, Hereditary salute of 21-guns Rampur, title Nawab; Hereditary salute of 15-guns Benares (Ramnagar), title Maharaja, Hereditary salute of 13-guns (15-guns local) Non-salute states : Bhadaura, Garha Khaniadhana Paron Raghugarh Umri Agra Barkhera. Kathaun Khiaoda Sangul Wardha Sirsi Also the Chhabra pargana (district) of Tonk State History After the Treaty of Salbai was concluded in 1782 between the British and Maharaja Mahadji Sindhia of Gwalior, David Anderson, who contributed to drafting the treaty, was appointed resident at the Gwalior court. The court was a moving camp until 1810, when Mahadji's successor Daulat Rao Sindhia permanently fixed his headquarters near the fortress of Gwalior, on the spot where Lashkar city now stands. Daulat Rao Sindhia was forced to sign a treaty of subsidiary alliance with the government of British India in