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1 NAGODE TOIVN-VAGOTINA. 161 taken under British administration. On attaining his majority in 1838, Raghubind was installed. The Rájá rendered good service during the Mutiny, and was rewarded by a grant of land from the confiscated State of Bijerághogarh, the right of adoption, and the honour of a salute of 9 guns. Raghubind died in 1874, and was succeeded by his son, Jadho Bind Singh, the present Rájá, who is a Purihar Rajput. The military force consists of 2 guns and 116 infantry and police. In the Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1874, page 109, will be found an account of the antiquities of this State. Nagode.-Chief town of Nagode State, in Baghelkhand, Central India; situated in lat. 24° 33' 45" N., and long. 80° 37' 55" E., on the route by Rewá from Sagar (Saugor) to Allahábád, 110 miles northwest of Jabalpur (Jubbulpore). Site of a cantonment for British troops. There is a fort here, in which the Rajá once resided, built on the Amran, a tributary of the Tons, at an elevation of 1099 feet above the level of the sea. Nagode was abandoned as a cantoninent in 1876, and about the same time the Rájá left the town and took up his residence at Uchahra. Nagode town has consequently lost much of its importance; the population (1881) has decreased to 4828, and houses both in cantonments and the town are falling into disrepair. Nagode is on the road from Satna to Nowgong, 17 miles from the former, and 84 miles from the latter place. Nagore.— Town and port in Tanjore District, Madras Presidency.Sec NAGAR. Nágothna. — Town in Pen Sub-division, Kolába District, Bombay Presidency; situated in lat. 18° 32' 30" N., and long. 73° 10' 55" E., 24 miles from the mouth of the river Amba, which is navigated by steamers up to Dharamtar ferry, 15 miles below Nágothna, at all times of the year. At Dharampur passengers and goods are transhipped to machwás (lateen-rigged smacks) of burden up to 20 tons, and carried up with the flood tide to Nágothna. The passenger traffic for the Southern Deccan and Konkán is considerable, and cargo is also brought up by boats of 80 tons burden and under. The channel has been much improved by the removal of rocks. A road, 70 miles in length, runs from this place to Mahåbleswar, and another running north-east joins the Bombay and Poona road at the foot of the Borghát. In the beginning of the sixteenth century Nágothna belonged to Gujarát. On the defeat of the prince of Gujarát by the Portuguese, the neighbourhood of Nágothna seems to have passed to Ahmadnagar, the allies of the Portuguese. In 1636, the Mughals handed the Ahmadnagar Konkán to Bijápur. About ten years later it passed to Sivají. It is called Negotan in a treaty between the British and the Peshwa in 1739. Nágothna is 15 miles south of Pen and 40 miles south-west from Bombay. Average annual value of trade during the five years VOL. X.