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VAG VILI-VAGINA. 159 of the city is now in ruins, presenting a confused mass of fallen houses and of dibris, such as one might expect to encounter in some city of the dead, but scarcely to be seen in a town containing soine 30,000 inhabitants. A superior breed of cattle is reared in the neighbourhood. Nágavali.--River in the Madras Presidency. - See LANGULIYA. Nágavaram. — Estate in Yernagudem tiluk, Godavari District, Madras Presidency. Lat. 17° 13' 40" N., long. 81° 22' 20" L. Population (1881) 5839; number of houses, 1182. Consists of 10 hill villages, inhabited chiefly by Kois, and from one of these villages the estate receives its name. The village of Nagavaram has a dilapidated fort. Nagdirgrám.- Village in Cachar District, Assam ; situated on the left bank of the Sonái river, i mile north of its confluence with the Rukhnini, and 14 miles south of Silchár, with which it is connected by a good road. In January 1871, a Bengalí settlement here was cut to pieces by a party of Lusháis. This outrage was an incident in the raid which led to the retributive Lushái expedition of the following year. Naggery.- Village and railway station in North Arcot District, Jadras Presidency.—See NAGARI NOSE. Nagína.-North-eastern tahsil of Bijnaur (Bijnor) District, NorthWestern Provinces ; consisting chiefly of a submontane and well-watered tract, bordering on the Garhwal Hills, and comprising the three parganhs of Nagina, Barhápurá, and Afzalgarh. A flat plain, well watered by streams, with a high average productiveness, and a remarkably dense population. The prevailing features are sugar-fields and numerous mango-groves. The country is well supplied with means of communication, and nine unmetalled roads converge on Nagina town, the headquarters of the tahsil, and the largest town in Bijnaur District. Area, 474 square miles, of which 226 square miles are returned as under cultivation. Population (1872) 165,116; (1881) 170,075, namely, males 90,554, and females 79,521. Classified according to religion, there were in 1881–Hindus, 113,489 ; Muhammadans, 56,541 ; Jains, 33; and 'others,' 12. Of the 465 villages comprising the tahsil, 383 contain less than five hundred inhabitants. Land revenue, £26,620; total Government revenue, including local rates and cesses levied on land, £30,130; rental paid by cultivators, £ 43,160. In 1883, Nagina tahsil contained 2 civil and 2 criminal courts, with 5 police circles (thánás), a regular police force of 70 men, a town and municipal police of 50 men, and a village watch or rural police of 392 chaukidárs. Nagina. — Town and municipality in Bijnaur (Bijnor) District, North-Western Provinces, and head-quarters of Nagina tahsil ; situated in lat. 29° 27' 5" X., and long. 78° 28' 50" E., on the road from Hardwar