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In 1948, with the formation of PEPSU Mahendragarh territory from Patiala State, Dadri territory (Now Charkhi Dadri) from Jind and Bawal territory
from Nabha State were constituted
into Mahendragarh district with the
headquarters at Narnaul. At that time,
there were three tehsils, namely;
Narnaul, Charkhi Dadri and Bawal and
Mahendragarh was a sub-tehsil. In
1949, Mahendragarh sub-tehsil was
made a tehsil. In 1950, Bawal tehsil
was broken up and 78 villages were
transferred to Gurgaon district forming
Bawal as a sub-tehsil and remaining
villages were added to Narnaul and
Mahendragarh.
In 1956 the Rewari
tehsil (except 61 villages ) was excluded
from Gurgaon district and included
in Mahendragarh district. The Charkhi-Dadri
sub- division was excluded from Mahendragarh
district and included in the newly
constituted district of Bhiwani. In
1977, 81 villages of Rewari tehsil
was constituted into Bawal tehsil.
In 1978 the district comprised 4 tehsils
(Mahendragarh, Rewari, Narnaul and
Bawal).
Rewari and Bawal tehsils (taken from
Mahendragarh district) and Kosli tehsil
except 10 villages (taken from Rohtak
district) were constituted into a
new district of Rewari as on 1st November,
1989. Presently district has 2 sub-divisions (Narnaul and Mahendragarh),
4 tehsils (1. Narnaul, 2. Mahendragarh, 3. Nangal Chaudhary, 4. Ateli) and 2 sub-tehsils (1. Kanina, 2. Satnali)
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