It included the present-day districts of Sagar (Saugor), Damoh, Jabalpur, and Narsinghpur.

[2] The Saugor and Nerbudda Territories were captured by the British East India Company from the Marathas at the conclusion of the Third Anglo-Maratha War, in 1818.

Saugor was the seat of a Maratha governor, and the northern portion of the territory was ceded by the Maratha Peshwa; the southern portion, which included Jubbulpore and the upper Nerbudda valley, was ceded by the Bhonsle Maharaja of Nagpur.

Immediately after the occupation, the British authorities established a provisional administration under the superintendent of Political Affairs of Bundelkhand.

In 1835 the Saugor and Nerbudda Territories were incorporated into the newly formed North-Western Provinces, which brought together the British Dominions in the southern portion of present-day Uttar Pradesh state.