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*''Imperial Gazetteer of India  Provincial Series'' 1908. Following links are pdf downloads, Digital Library of India, with mirror versions on Archive.org. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/207370 ''United Provinces of Agra and Oudh Vol. I''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207370 Archive.org] - [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/207372 ''United Provinces of Agra and Oudh Vol. II''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207372 Archive.org].
*''Imperial Gazetteer of India  Provincial Series'' 1908. Following links are pdf downloads, Digital Library of India, with mirror versions on Archive.org. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/207370 ''United Provinces of Agra and Oudh Vol. I''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207370 Archive.org] - [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/207372 ''United Provinces of Agra and Oudh Vol. II''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207372 Archive.org].
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/209125 ''Jungle Trails in Northern India: Reminiscences of Hunting in India''] by John Hewett. With 24 plates and a map 1938. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209125 Archive.org version]. Sir John was Governor of United Provinces  with many royal friends. Hunting  largely between 1907 and 1912, including tiger hunting in the jungles of Tarai, Cooch Behar, the Central Provinces, and up north in Kumaon and Garhwal.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/209125 ''Jungle Trails in Northern India: Reminiscences of Hunting in India''] by John Hewett. With 24 plates and a map 1938. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209125 Archive.org version]. Sir John was Governor of United Provinces  with many royal friends. Hunting  largely between 1907 and 1912, including tiger hunting in the jungles of Tarai, Cooch Behar, the Central Provinces, and up north in Kumaon and Garhwal.
* Industrial Arts series of Monographs
* Industry and Industrial Arts series of Monographs. Pdf downloads, Digital Repository of GIPE Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune].
**[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25607 ''Monograph on stone carving in the United Provinces''] by H S  Crosthwaite 1906. Pdf download, Digital Repository of GIPE Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune].
** For earlier publications see [[North-Western Provinces‎]]
**[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25628 ''Monograph on the manufacture of wire and tinsel in the United Provinces''] by C W  Gwynne 1910. Pdf download, Digital Repository of GIPE Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune].  
**[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25607 ''Monograph on Stone Carving in the United Provinces''] by H S  Crosthwaite 1906.  
**[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25629 ''Monograph on Iron and Steel Work in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh''] by W E J  Dobbs 1908? (catalogued 1898)
**[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25628 ''Monograph on the Manufacture of Wire and Tinsel in the United Provinces''] by C W  Gwynne 1910.  





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The United Provinces (shortened to UP), was a province in British India that roughly corresponded to the modern day Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The province was known by the following names:

UP consisted of Agra Province and Oudh Province.

Predecessors

Agra Province

Oudh Province

Divisions

The administrative divisions during the British period were:

  • Meerut
  • Agra
  • Kumaon
  • Gorakpur
  • Benares

Districts

The administrative districts and their headquarter towns are listed in the article United Provinces Districts.

Main cities

Historical books online

DLI mirror versions on Archive.org for Himalayan Gazetteer