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NABADIVIP--NABHA. 125 well cultivated ; and the southern is a narrow, sandy tract, which forms good grazing ground for cattle. Naaf is divided into il revenue circles, with its head-quarters at MAUNG - DAW. Population (1881) 53,804; number of villages, 344. Total revenue (1881-82), £13,250; namely, land revenue, £8008; capitation-tax, £4737; fisheries, £70; salt, £82; and local cess, £743. Area under cultivation, 41,416 acres, of which 38,000 acres are under rice. Nabadwip. — Town in Nadiyá District, Bengal. — See NADIYA TowΝ. Nabaganga.-River of Bengal, an offshoot of the Mátábhángá in Nadivá District. After entering Jessor on its western boundary, the river flows, first east and then south-east, past Thanidah, Mág Naháta, Naldi, and Lakshmipása, till it meets the Madhumati on the extreme east of the District. The Nabagangá has long been completely shut up at its head, and cannot now be traced beyond a swamp 6 miles from its former source, which was at Dámurhuda. It is drying up year by year, and in the hot season is unnavigable. In December, however, boats of about 2 tons burthen can still pass up to Jhanidah. Nábha.-One of the cis-Sutlej States under the political control of the Government of the Punjab, lying between 30° 17' and 30° 40' N. lat., and between 75° 50' and 76° 20' E. long. Area, 928 square miles, with 3 towns and 482 villages; number of houses, 42,019; number of families, 56,519. Total population (1881) 261,824, namely, males 145,155, and females 116,669; proportion of males, 554 per cent.; density of population, 282 persons per square mile; persons per town or village, 539; persons per house, 4:6. Classified according to religion, the population in 1881 consisted of Hindus, 133,571; Sikhs, 77,682 ; Muhammadans, 50,178; Jains, 375; and Christians, 18. The ruling family is descended from Tiloka, the eldest son of Phul, a Sidhu Ját, who founded a village in the Nábha territory. The Rájá of Jind (Jhínd) is descended from the same branch, and the Rájá of is descended from Rána, second son of Phul. These three families are accordingly known as the Phulkian houses. The history of the State is of little importance until after Ranjit Singh's cis-Sutlej campaigns of 1807-08, when it appeared that the Sikh conqueror would be satisfied with nothing less than absolute supremacy over the whole country to the north of the Jumna. On this, the Rájá of Nabha applied to the English for aid. He received Colonel Ochterlony on his arrival at Nábha with the utmost cordiality; and in May 1809, the State was formally taken under British protection, with the other cis - Sutlej States. The Rájá Jaswant Singh was a faithful ally of the British Government; but after his death, which