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sovernor-general is appointed for the central India
group of states, and is located at Indore; and each
important state, with the minor states adjoining, is
provided with a political agent, such are the Gwalior,
Indore, Bhopal, and Western Malwa Agencies.

The cluster of states, which extend over Rajputana,
 cover a very large area and are among the most
ancient in the country. Several British agencies
carry on political relations with groups of these states
under the governor-general's agent for the whole of
them, such are Meywar, Jeypore, Marwar, Haraoti,
the Eastern States Agency, the Ulwar Agency, &c.
zach dealing with several states,
[n the Central India States we find a peculiar
arrangement of minor or mediatized states who recognize
 the sovereign right of a larger state, just as the
latter recognizes that of the British government. In
other words, we have states within states. The
relations of these minor subordinate states with the
larger feudatories have been arranged by the British
government on lines similar to those existing between
the superior states and the sovereign power. Thus in
the Gwalior agency the states of Anyhera, Narwar,
Bhadoura, Khaltoun, Sirsee, Ragogarh, Sheopore, are
tributary to Scindia.
Some of the smaller states were, at the introduction
 of British rule, found to be thus tributary
to Scindia, Holkar or the Puars, and sometimes to
all three.