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|nation = [[Company rule in India|British Empire in India]]<br />
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|capital = [[Agra]]<br />
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|year_start = 14 November 1834<br />
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|today = Portions in <br />[[Uttar Pradesh]]<br /> [[Uttarakhand]]<br /> [[Rajasthan]]<br /> [[Madhya Pradesh]]<br />[[Himachal Pradesh]]<br /> [[Haryana]]<br /> [[Delhi]]<br />
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'''Agra Presidency''' was one of the six Northwestern Provinces of [[British India]] (which constituted one of the eight separate administrations into which India was divided in the first half of the 19th century). It had an area of {{convert|9479|mi2|abbr=on}} and a population of about 4,500,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chestofbooks.com/reference/American-Cyclopaedia-V1/Agra.html |title=Agra |publisher=Chestofbooks.com |access-date=2013-12-31}}</ref><br />
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Presidency of Agra was established on 14 November 1834 under the provisions of [[Government of India Act 1833]]<ref>{{cite book | last=Agrawal | first=P.K. | title=Land Reforms in India: Constitutional and Legal Approach (with Special Reference to Uttar Pradesh) | publisher=M.D. Publications | year=1993 | isbn=978-81-85880-09-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KS1xUqeg4t0C&pg=PA7 | page=7}}</ref> by elevating and renaming the [[Ceded and Conquered Provinces]]. Sir [[Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe|C. T. Metcalfe]] was appointed as the new [[List of Governors of Agra|Governor]] for the Presidency.<ref name=igi-V-72>{{cite book|title=Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. V|year=1908|page=72}}</ref> However, in 1835 another Act of Parliament (statute 5 and 6, William IV, cap. 52) renamed the region to the [[North-Western Provinces]], this time to be administered by a [[List of Lieutenant Governors of the North-Western Provinces|Lieutenant-Governor]]. Agra Presidency ceased to exist on 1 June 1836.<br />
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* [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_BrProvinces.htm Provinces of British India]<br />
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