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176 NAIGAOV RIBAHI-VAIKDAS, THE. Bombay Presidency. Area, 3 square miles, with, including Nahára, five villages. Held jointly by two proprietors, called thákurs. Revenue, £60; tribute of £2, 1os. is paid to the Gáekwár of Baroda. Náigáon Ribahi (or Nayagáon, or Nawagáon). — Petty State in Bundelkhand, Central India. Bounded on the south by the Chhatarpur State ; on all other sides, it lies within Hamirpur District of the North-Western Provinces. The area was estimated in 1875 at 16 square miles, the population at 3360 persons, and the revenue at £1037. The population in 1881 was 3365. Lakshman Singh, one of the banditti leaders of Bundelkhand, having been induced to surrender after some resistance on promise of pardon, received in 1807 a sanid for 5 villages. On his death in 1808, he was succeeded by his son Jagat Singh. In 1850 it was decided that the State is held merely on a life tenure, and ought to have been resumed on the death of Lakshman Singh. It was continued to Jagat Singh, however, who had been so long in possession, on the distinct understanding that it was to lapse absolutely at his death. At his earnest request, the Government allowed his widow, Thákuráin Larái Dulaiya, to succeed after his death, which occurred in 1867. Náiháti (Nyehattee). — Town and municipality in the District of the Twenty-four Parganas, Bengal. Lat. 22° 53'50" N., long. 88° 27' 40" E. Station on the Eastern Bengal Railway, 237 miles from Calcutta. Population (1872) 23,730; (1881) 21,533, namely, males 10,655, and females 10,878. Classified according to religion, there were in 1881 Hindus, 18,695; Muhammadans, 2817; and others,' 21. Area of town site, 6680 acres. Municipal revenue (1872), £,660, 4s. ; (1883-84), £1241, of which £1185 was derived from taxation; average incidence of taxation, is. I d. per head. Bench of magistrates, sub-registry office, English and girls' school. Náikdas, The.—A wild forest tribe found in Panch Maháls District, and in the Rewá Kántha Agency, Bombay Presidency. Of the origin of the Náikdás two stories are told. One, that their ancestors were grooms to the Muhammadan nobles and merchants of Champáner, who took to the forcsts on the decay of that city towards the close of the sixteenth century. The other states that they are descended from an escort sent by the Rájá of Báglán to the Raja of Champáner. The Náikdás are generally small in stature, thin and wiry, remarkably active, capable of enduring fatigue, and not wanting in courage; black in colour, with dark eyes, square faces, and irregular features. Except the chiefs and a few others in good circumstances, who dress likc Rajputs or Kolis, the men wear a few yards of dirty ragged cloth round the loins and a second cloth round the head. The women wcar over the shoulders a robe or sári of a dark blue or red colour, a petticoat, and sometimes a bodice. Except tin and brass car-rings, the men wcar no