<P> After 1818 the British organised the numerous princely states of central India into the Central India Agency; the Malwa Agency was a division of Central India, with an area of 23,100 km (8,900 sq mi) and a population of 1,054,753 in 1901 . It comprised the states of Dewas State (senior and junior branch), Jaora, Ratlam, Sitamau and Sailana, together with a large part of Gwalior, parts of Indore and Tonk, and about 35 small estates and holdings . Political power was exercised from Neemuch . </P> <P> Upon Indian independence in 1947, the Holkars and other princely rulers acceded to India, and most of Malwa became part of the new state of Madhya Bharat, which was merged into Madhya Pradesh in 1956 . </P> <P> The Malwa region occupies a plateau in western Madhya Pradesh and south - eastern Rajasthan (between 21 ° 10 ′ N 73 ° 45 ′ E ﻿ / ﻿ 21.167 ° N 73.750 ° E ﻿ / 21.167; 73.750 and 25 ° 10 ′ N 79 ° 14 ′ E ﻿ / ﻿ 25.167 ° N 79.233 ° E ﻿ / 25.167; 79.233), with Gujarat in the west . The region includes the Madhya Pradesh districts of Agar, Dewas, Dhar, Indore, Jhabua, Mandsaur, Neemuch, Rajgarh, Ratlam, Shajapur, Ujjain, and parts of Guna and Sehore, and the Rajasthan districts of Jhalawar and parts of Kota, Banswara and Pratapgarh . </P> <P> Malwa is bounded in the north - east by the Hadoti region, in the north - west by the Mewar region, in the west by the Vagad region and Gujarat . To the south and east is the Vindhya Range and to the north is the Bundelkhand upland . </P>

On the north east border of the malwa plateau