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128 NACHIARKOVIL-NADIYA. Nachiarkovil (also called Srivilliputúr). — Town in the Srivilliputúr tíluk of Tinnevelli District, Madras Presidency. Lat. 9° 30' 25" X., long. 77° 40' E. Population (1881) 1245; number of houses, 286. There is a fine pagoda here. Nádanghát.— Trading village in the Kálná (Culna) Sub-division of Bardwán District, Bengal. Nádaun. - Town in Kángra District, Punjab, situated in lat. 31° 46' N., and long. 79° 19'e., on the left bank of the Beas (Biás), 20 miles south-east of Kángra town. Head-quarters of the jágír of the late Rájá Sir Jodhbir Chand, who was recently succeeded by his son Amar Chand. Population (1868) 1855. Not separately returned in the Census of 1881. Once a favourite residence of Rájá Sansar Chand, who built himself a palace at Aintar, on the river bank, one mile from the town, where he held his court during the summer. Handsome temple and covered well, jágirdár's police station, postoffice, school-house. Manufacture of soap and of ornamental bamboo pipe-stems. Nadigaon.—Town in Datia State, Baghelkhand Agency, Central India. Population (1881) 5475, namely, Hindus, 5071, and Muhammadans, 404. Nadiya (Nuddea; Nabadwip).—District in the Lieutenant-Governorship of Bengal, lying between 22° 52' 33" and 24° 11' n. lat., and between 88° u' and 89° 24' 41" E. long. Area, 3404 square miles. Population, according to the Census of 1881, 2,017,847 souls. Nadiya District forms the northern portion of the Presidency Division. It is bounded on the north by the District of Rájsháhí; on the east by Pabná and Jessor ; on the south by the Twenty-four Parganás; on the west by Birbhúm, Bardwán, and Húglí; and on the north-west by Murshidábád. The boundary lines are formed principally by riversthe Padmá (at present the inain stream of the Ganges), separating Nadiya from Pabná and Rájsháhí; the Jalangi, marking the line of division with Murshidábád; and the Bhagirathi, forming the western boundary of the District, although, owing to changes in the course of the last-named river, a strip of land belonging to Nadiya, and comprising the town of Nadiyá and a few adjacent villages, now lies on the farther bank of the river. The Kabadak forms the south-eastern boundary, separating Nadiya from Jessor. The District takes its name from the town of NADIYA or Nabadwip; but the administrative hcad-quarters and chief town is KRISHNAGAR, on the Jalangi. Physical Aspects.--Nadiya is cmphatically a District of great rivers. Situated at the head of the Gangetic delta, its alluvial surface, though still liable to periodical inundation, has been raised by ancient deposits of silt sufficiently high to be permanent dry land. As opposed to the swamps of the Sundarbans farther scaward, its soil is agriculturally