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Agra Subah | |||||||||||
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| 1558–1761 | |||||||||||
 Agra Subah depicted in map of Mughal Empire by Robert Wilkinson (1805) | |||||||||||
| Capital | Agra | ||||||||||
| Subahdar | |||||||||||
| Historical era | Early-modern period | ||||||||||
• Established | 1558 | ||||||||||
| 12 June 1761 | |||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
• 1601 | 46,417[1] sq mi (120,220 km2) | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | India | ||||||||||
TheAgra Subah (Persian:صوبه آگره) was asubah (province) of theMughal Empire, established in the reign ofAkbar and one of the empire's core territories until it was eclipsed by the rapidly expandingMaratha Empire. To the north it borderedDelhi andAwadh, to the eastAllahabad, and to the south and westMalwa andAjmer. Its capital was atAgra, an important administrative center of the empire which was expanded under Mughal rule.
The province was divided into 13sarkars during the reign of Akbar.[2]
| Sarkar |
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| Agra (capital) |
| Kalpi |
| Kannauj |
| Kol |
| Gwalior |
| Erach |
| Payanwan |
| Narwar |
| Mandlaer |
| Alwar |
| Tijara |
| Narnaul |
| Sahar |
Qasim Khan
Wazir Khan
Islam Khan
Safdar Khan
Syed Khan Jahan
Azam Khan
Saif Khan
Raja Bethal Das
Shaikh Farid
Wazir Khan (Lahore), 1628-1631
