The Rajputana Agency under the British was headed by an officer called:

Explanation

The Rajputana Agency was not administered as an ordinary British province; it was a political arrangement for dealing with the princely states of Rajputana. The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica entry describes Rajputana as a collection of native states under the political charge of an agent to the governor-general, resident at Abu. That corresponds to the exam title Agent to the Governor-General, or AGG. The AGG was stationed at Mount Abu in summer and Ajmer in winter, supervising relations between the British Crown and Rajputana's princely states. Political Agents worked below the AGG for individual states or groups of states.

Why the other options are wrong

• (A) The Viceroy was the head of British India as a whole, not the officer specifically heading the Rajputana Agency.
• (C) Commissioner of Rajputana is not the correct title; the position was an agent to the governor-general.
• (D) Governor of Rajputana is wrong because Rajputana was a grouping of princely states under political supervision, not a British province headed by a Governor.

Concept

This tests the British political organisation of princely states in Rajputana. RAS repeats such titles because they distinguish indirect rule through agencies from direct provincial administration.

Source

• 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica: Rajputana

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