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WIBIGAN-MACHIANG:10V. 127 Nabiganj.-Village in Máinpuri District, North-Western Provinces ; on the Grand Trunk Road, 24 miles east of Mainpuri town. Lat. 27° I'50" N., long. 79° 25' 25" E. Population (1881) 1049, namely, Hindus 916, and Muhammadans 133. Police outpost ; sarái (native inn). Nabiganj.-Village and police station in the south-east of Sylhet District, Assam, on the Bárak branch of the Surmá river. Exports to Bengal of rice, sítalpáti mats, and oil-seeds. Nabinagar. — Town in Sítápur District, Oudh ; situated 3 miles north-west of Láharpur town. Population (1881) 2524. Headquarters of the táluktár of Katesar, whose residence is the only masonry building in the village. Founded about two centuries ago by Nabi Khán, son of Nawab Sanjar Khan of Malihábád. Captured fifty or sixty years afterwards by Gaur Rajputs, who have hell it ever since. Nabisar.–Town in the Umarkot táluk of the Thar and Párkar District, Sind, Bombay Presidency; situated in lat. 25° 4' N., and long. 69° 41' E., 20 miles south of Unarkot, and connected by road with Nawakot, Juda, Daraila, Samára, Harpar, Mitti, and Chelar. Head-quarters of a tappidár. Contains a police thánd, Government school, dharmsála, and post-office. Population (1881) under 2000, chiefly engaged in agriculture, cattle-breeding, and an export trade in ghi. Manufactures of weaving and dyeing. Local and transit trade in cotton, cocoa-nuts, grain, camels, cattle, hides, sugar, tobacco, wool, and metals. Nabog Nái(Noyagni).—Pass in Kashmir (Cashmere) State, Northern India, over the range of mountains bounding the Kashmír valley on the east. Lat. 33° 43' N., long. 75° 34' E. (Thornton). Elevation of crest above sea-level, 12,000 feet. Nábpur (Lábhpur).— Trading village in Birbhúm District, Bengal, recently transferred from Bardwán. Náchangaon.--Ancient town in Wardhá tahsil, Wardha District, Central Provinces; situated in lat. 20° 42' N., and long. 78° 22' E., 2 miles south of Pulgaon railway station, and 21 miles from Wardhá town. Population (1881) 3615, chiefly agriculturists. Hindus number 3035; Muhammadans, 286; Jains, 111; and followers of aboriginal religions, 183. The saríi (native inn), with its strong stone walls and gateway, resembles a fort, and was once successfully held by the inhabitants against the Pindárís. It contains a well, a carved stone on which records that the building was constructed four centuries ago by Badshah Lár. Every Thursday a market takes place in the square in the centre of the town; and on the 4th of Aswin Vadhya (end of September) a yearly fair is held in the temple of Puránik. Náchangaon has a good town school, and is a police outpost.