Bhopal Agency

The Bhopal Agency was a historical administrative region in central India, established in 1818 under the British Empire. It was a subdivision of the British Central India Agency and encompassed the princely states of Bhopal, Rajgarh, Narsinghgarh, and others. The agency's headquarters were located in Sehore. The region's history is intertwined with the city of Bhopal, which was founded in 1723 by Dost Mohammad Khan. The Bhopal Agency ceased to exist after India's independence in 1947, when Bhopal acceded to India and eventually became the capital of Madhya Pradesh state in 1956.1

In 1984, Bhopal became the site of the world's worst industrial disaster when methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a Union Carbide plant, causing thousands of immediate deaths and long-term health issues for hundreds of thousands of survivors.2