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{{Infobox former subdivision
|native_name =
|conventional_long_name =Ceded Districts
|common_name =Ceded Districts
|nation = [[British India]]
|subdivision = Area
|era =
|year_start = 1800
|date_start =
|event_start= Districts ceded by the [[Nizam]]
|year_end = 1947
|date_end =
|event_end= [[Partition of India|Indian independence]]
|event1 =
|date_event1 =
|p1 =Hyderabad State
|s1 =Dominion of India
|flag_p1 = Asafia flag of Hyderabad State.png
|flag_s1 = Flag of India.svg
|image_flag =British Raj Red Ensign.svg
|image_coat =
|image_map =
|image_map_caption =
|stat_area1 =
|stat_year1 =
|stat_pop1 =
|footnotes =
}}
'''Ceded Districts''' is the name of an area in the [[Deccan Plateau|Deccan]], [[India]] that was 'ceded' to the [[British East India Company]] by the [[Nizam]] in 1800. The name was in use during the whole period of the [[British Raj]], even though the denomination had no official weight for legal or administrative purposes. The area largely corresponds to the modern region of [[Rayalaseema]].
==History==
Following the [[Treaty of Seringapatam]] the [[Tippu Sultan]] accepted to give his northern territory to the [[Nizam of Hyderabad]] in 1792 AD.

In 1796 AD, the then Nizam [[Asaf Jah II]], harassed by the [[Maratha Empire|Marathas]] and [[Tipu Sultan]], opted to get British military protection under [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Lord Wellesley's]] doctrine of [[Subsidiary alliance|Subsidiary Alliance]]. Now, as a part of this agreement, the Nizam ceded a large portion of the acquired territory to the British, to be added to the [[Madras Presidency]]. This area was also known as the ''Ceded Districts'', a term still used for the areas, and included the present day districts of [[Anantapur district|Anantapuram]], [[Cuddapah District|Kadapa (Cuddapah)]], much of [[Kurnool district|Karnoolu (Kurnool)]], [[Bellary district|Bellary]], and parts of [[Tumakuru district|Tumkur]] ([[Pavagada]] [[taluk]]).<ref name="imperial-gazetteer">{{cite book
| last =
| first =
| authorlink =
| title = The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 7
| publisher = Clarendon Press
| date = 1908-1931 [vol. 1, 1909]
| location = Oxford
| pages = 158–176
| url = https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/toc.html?volume=7
| doi =
| id =
| access-date = 21 June 2007
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141122115856/http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/toc.html?volume=7
| archive-date = 22 November 2014
| url-status = dead
}}</ref>

After the defeat and death of [[Tipu Sultan]] in the [[Fourth Anglo-Mysore War]] at [[Battle of Srirangapattana]], the [[Kingdom of Mysore|Mysooru (Mysore)]] territories (Map<ref>{{cite web
| title = India Map 1700-1792, from The Historical Atlas R.
| last = Shepherd
| first = William R
| publisher = Longmans, Green, and Co.
| year = 1923
| url = http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~poyntz/India/ind1785.html
| accessdate = 2007-06-15}}</ref>) were divided up between the [[Wodeyar]]s, the [[Nizam]] and the [[British East India Company]].

==References==
<references />
{{Historical districts of India}}

[[Category:Districts of British India]]

{{India-hist-stub}}

Ceded Districts - Revision history

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