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Why were the North-Western Provinces created in 1833?

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The North-Western Provinces were created in 1833 to administratively separate territories that had been acquired by the East India Company over the preceding 75 years from the Bengal Presidency.1

These territories, which included lands wrested from the nawabs, the Sindhias of Gwalior, and the Gurkhas of Nepal, were initially placed within the Bengal Presidency before being reorganized into this new administrative unit, which was initially known as the Agra Presidency.1