The correct answer is 1861 A. D. In 1861 A. D. the British territories of this state were incorporated into a Division of the Central Provinces. The Central Provinces was a province of British India. It comprised British conquests from the Mughals andMarathas in central India covered parts of present-day Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Maharashtra states. Its capital was Nagpur. Its Summer Capital was Pachmarhi. It became the Central Provinces and Berar in 1903. The Central Provinces were formed in 1861 by the merger of the Saugor and Nerbudda Territories and Nagpur Province. The district of Nimar which was administered by the Central India Agency was added in 1864. It was almost an island encircled by a sea of "native States" such as Bhopal State and Rewa State to the north, the Chota Nagpur States and Kalahandi State to the east, and the Nizam's territories of Hyderabad to the south and Berar to the west.