Baroda Residency

Baroda (Template:Lang-hi) was one of the residencies of British India, managing the relations of the British with Baroda State.

Silver rupee of Sayaji Rao III, late 19th century

Baroda was an Indian princely state, ruled by the Gaekwad dynasty from its formation in 1721 until 1947 when it acceded to the newly formed Union of India. With wealth coming from the lucrative cotton trade as well as rice, wheat and sugar, it was one of the largest and richest of the hundreds of princely states existing alongside British India. It was thus one of the states which had a British Resident appointed to deal with no other princely state.

In the 1930s, the Baroda Residency was combined with those for the princely states adjacent to the Bombay Presidency to form the "Baroda, Western States and Gujarat Agency".

See also

• Baroda State
• Baroda.