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Administrative set up of Haryana during Britishers
During the last quarter of 18 th century Haryana was the hunting ground of freelooter and adventurers. It was a noman's land where Sikhs and Marathas were fighting for their supremacy. Towards the end of this century George Thomas an Irish adventurer, came to the political scene of Haryana. He outsted the Sikhs and made a small kingdom of his own with Hansi as its capital. His territory was from Ghaggar in the north and Beri in the south, from Meham in the east to Behadara in the wet. It had 800 villagesi ncluding towns of Hansi, Bhiwani, Hissar, Fatehabad and Tohana. He also founded a town and named as Georgegarh, now known as Jahazgarh. From 1803 to 1858 Haryana witnessed many administrative changes suiting to the need of Britishers . In 1803 British rule established by the treaty of Surji Anjangaon (Dec. 30) when Maratha chief Daulat Rao Sindhia handed over the paragnas of Panipat, Sonipat, samalkhan, Ganaur and Haveli Palam in North and Nuh, Hathene, Tijara, Bhora, Tapukara, Sohna, Rewari, Indri and Pa lwal in the south to Presidency of Bengal . It was placed under the resident for administration and known as 'assigned territory' . In 1819 civil administration was divided into three divisions. These divisions were controlled by assistants under commissioner.
In 1833 North-Western Provience was formed with Agra as its head quarters. It comprises of six divisions. Delhi was one of the six divisions. It was divided into districts of Delhi, Gurgaon, Hissar, Rohtak and Panipat. Each district was under a magistrate cum collector. It was further subdivided into tehsils, zails and villages and placed under tehsildars, zaildars, lamberdars and muquddams. In villages Patwari use to help lamberdars and muqaddams.
On Feb 5, 1858 after the great India revolt Delhi territory west of Yamuna was transferred to the Panjab. It was from Palwal in the South to Shimla Hills in the north and Satlej in the west. Shortly afterwards a portion of Delhi territory was transferred in perpetuity as a reward for their services to the Cis Satlej chiefs the Maharaja of Patiala, Nabha and Jind. The administration was adopted on the Punjab pattern with every district placed under a deputy commissioner who was a magistrate, a collector and a civil judge. The districts were placed under two divisions - Delhi and Hissar. The Delhi division comprises of Delhi, Gurgaon, and Panipat, while Hissar , Sirsa and Rohtak and a portion of Jhajjar State were put under Hissar divisions. Each division was headed by a commissioner with its head quarters at Delhi and Hissar respectively.
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