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 10 NAW There is a temple to Debi, and a shiwála of Nágeshwar Náth Mahadeo. The people attend on Mondays and Fridays at these temples, and the fairs of Chait and Phágun, in honour of both respectively are attended by a great assemblage. The total population is 10,606, of which Hindus are 7,411, and Muhammadans 3,195. The battle of Nawabganj, in 1857, may be related from Ballis' History of the Mutiny. "At length it was considered proper to put an end to operations that produced so much needless anxiety; and at midnight, on the 12th of June, Sir Hope Grant, with a column of all arms, amounting to 5,000 men, marched for Chinhut on his way to beat up the quarters of a divi- sion of the enemy, reported to be commanded by the Maulvi, “The right was dark, but the guides were skilful, and the force, without accident, reached Jaadrigunge, near Nawabgunge, where it was to cross the Beti Nuddee. Here the advance guard was challenged by a picket of the enemy, and the column halted. At daylight it again moved for- ward, and crossed the bridge ander a fire of musketry and guns, so placed in adjacent topes as to sweep the line of advance. The enemy's fire was well directed, but fortunately the river bank was sufficiently elevated to cover the bridge and the approach to it, and as soon as the artillery had got up and opened fire, the rebels began to retire to their main body (about 16,000 strong), a short distance in the rear of a tope and ravine. “The troops followed, and in a short time found themselves surrounded- a heavy ill-directed fire opening upon them from the brushwood in their front, their rear, and both flanks. Encouraged by the success of the manoeuvre by which the European troops had been as it were drawn into a trap, the rebels ventured to emerge from the wood, and bringing their guns into the plain commenced an assault; but Grant's artillery, only 200 yards distant, opened upon them with such a destructive shower of grape as inflicted a fearful slaughter in their ranks, and deterred them from any further effort to attack. “While yet hesitating, two squadrons of cavalry and one of Hodson's horse charged, with the infantry, and cut down about 500 of them, and the remainder of the insurgent force, finding themselves beaten on all points, retired precipitately on Nawabgunge, where they remained till the follow- ing day, when they were driven out with considerable loss by the English troops, leaving also a great portion of their baggage behind them. At noon on the 14th, Sir H. Grant occupied Nawabgunge, which he at once proceeded to fortify. The rebels, who had retired to Bittowlee, at the conflu- ence of the rivers Ghagra, and Chauka, lost no time in throwing up strong earthworks for their protection at that place. The loss sustained by them in the action of the 13th amounted in killed and wounded to 1,000 men, with nine guns and two standards ; that on the British side amounted to thirty-six killed and sixty-two wounded." NAWABGANJ Parganat.Tohsil BEGAMGANJ—District GONDA.--This pargana is bounded on the north by parganas Mahadewa and Manikapur, on the gouth by theriver Gogra and some villages of the Fyzabad district,