Central Provinces and Berar five divisions : The Central provinces and Berar included also 15 princely states, whose native rulers enjoyed indirect rule under British protection. Salute states, in order of precendence : Non-salute states, alphabetically : Central Provinces and Berar The Central Provinces and Berar was a province of British India and later the Dominion of India which existed from 1936 to 1950. It was formed by the merger of the Central Provinces with the province of Berar, which was territory leased by the British from the Hyderabad State. Through an agreement signed on 5 November 1902, 6th Nizam Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf
Nine Provinces dynasty; the "Rituals of Zhou" the Zhou dynasty, and the "Lüshi Chunqiu" the concept and actual territorial distribution of the Nine Provinces during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. The "Lüshi Chunqiu" contains the following passage on the location of the nine provinces and their general correspondence with the states of the time: The words "Nine Provinces" do not appear in any ancient oracle bone inscriptions, such that many scholars do not think Yu the Great created the Nine Provinces as was traditionally thought. Some suggest the name "Jiuzhou", which came to mean "Nine Provinces", was actually a