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134 NADIYA The only form of sectarianism which the Muhammadan religion has developed in Nadiya, is a rather powerful Faráizi or Wáhábí puritan community. These are not now a disloyal body, and are not returned as a separate Muhammadan sect in the Census. Half a century ago, the case was very different. The fanatic leader, Titu Miyán, found in Nadiya in 1831 a sufficient body of disaffected Faráizi husbandmen, to lead him to set up the standard of revolt, and for a short time to defy the British Government. The Christian community in 1881 numbered 6440, comprising 69 Europeans, 67 Eurasians, and 6304 native converts. By sect the Christian population is returned as follows :—Church of England, 3444 ; Protestants, 1084; Episcopalians, 15; Roman Catholics, 1202; Baptists, 324 ; Church of Scotland, 30; other denominations and unspecified, 341. These figures do not exactly agree with those obtained from other sources, as the Church Missionary Society claims 61 28 native converts belonging to its Missions at Krishnagar town and outstations. There is also a Roman Catholic Mission at Krishnagar established in 1856, with a nunnery attached to it, concerning which no statistics are available, but which is believed to have a following of about five hundred converts. The majority of the Christians earn their living as husbandmen, and a few as constables, servants, and vernacular teachers, or as preachers in connection with the Mission. The staff of the Church Mission Society in 1881 consisted of 3 European and 27 native preachers, 61 native Christian and 33 nonChristian teachers. The Mission maintains a theological and training school at Krishnagar, with 25 pupils in 1881, besides 45 excellent boys' schools attended by 2057 pupils, and 19 girls' schools with 502 pupils. The Church of England Zanána Mission Society also maintains 4 girls' schools, with 149 pupils in 1881. Town and Rural Population, Nadiya District contains a considerable urban population. The following eight towns are municipalities containing upwards of five thousand inhabitants in 1881:-KRISHNAGAR, the civil station and administrative head-quarters of the District, population 27,477 ; SANTIPUR, 29,687; NADIYA or Nabadwip, 14,105; KUSHTIA, 9717; CHAGDAH, 8989; RANAGHAT, 8683; KUMARKHALI, 6041; and MIHRPUR, 5731. Besides the foregoing, there are two other municipal towns, containing less than five thousand inhabitants, namely, BIRNAGAR, 4302 ; and Jaguli, 1985. These ten towns contain a total urban population of 119,840 souls, or 5'9 per cent of the total District population, leaving 1,898,007 as forining the number of inhabitants in the rural villages. It is a curious circumstance regarding the town population, that whereas the Muhammadans form the majority of the population as a whole, they are invariably in a very considerable minority in the towns. Thus, while the Muhammadans comprise 56.8