| Conventional Long Name: | Bhopawar Agency |
| Common Name: | Bhopawar Agency |
| Nation: | British India |
| Status Text: | Sub-agency of the Central India Agency |
| Year Start: | 1882 |
| Event Start: | Merger of Bhil Agency and Bhil Sub-agency |
| Year End: | 1937 |
| Event End: | Merger into Malwa Agency |
| P1: | Bhil Agency |
| S1: | Malwa Agency |
| Flag P1: | British Raj Red Ensign.svg |
| Flag S1: | British Raj Red Ensign.svg |
| Image Map Caption: | Map of the Central India Agency with the Bhopawar Agency located at its western end |
| Stat Area1: | 19902 |
| Stat Year1: | 1901 |
| Stat Pop1: | 547546 |
Bhopawar Agency was a sub-agency of the Central India Agency in British India with the headquarters at the town of Bhopawar, so the name. Bhopawar Agency was created in 1882 from a number of princely states in the Western Nimar and Southern Malwa regions of Central India belonging to the former Bhil Agency and Bhil Sub-agency with the capitals at Bhopawar and Manpur.[1] The agency was named after Bhopawar, a village in Sardarpur tehsil, Dhar District of present-day Madhya Pradesh state. Manpur remained a strictly British territory.
The other chief towns of this region were: Badnawar, Kukshi, Manawar and Sardarpur, Chadawad Estate, Dattigaon. The mighty Vindhya and Satpura ranges crossed the territory of the agency roughly from east to west, with the fertile valley of the Narmada River lying between them. The agency also included the "Bhil Country", inhabited by the Bhil people.[2]
At the time of its 1882 establishment, the agency had a total area of 7684sqmi, and its population was 547,546 according to the 1901 census. In 1904 certain districts were transferred from this agency to the Indore Residency, created in 1899, and the area of Bhopawar was thus reduced by 3283sqmi. In 1925 Bhopawar Agency was merged into Malwa Agency, and in 1927 the agency was renamed the Malwa-Bhopawar States Agency, which was renamed again as the Malwa Agency in 1934.
After Indian Independence in 1947, the rulers of the princely states within Malwa-Bhopawar Agency acceded to the Union of India, and the region became part of the new state of Madhya Bharat. Madhya Bharat was merged into Madhya Pradesh on 1 November 1956.
Salute states in the agency, by precedence, with their feudatories :
Minor and petty Princely states in the agency included (alphabetically, with their feudatories) :
Further estates, not named above, include :
