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NAKPUR-NALATUAR. 181 outside with fine encaustic tiles, and the earlier one contains some wellpreserved paintings. Municipal revenue in 1883-84, £ 409, or 11!d. per head of population within municipal limits. Nakpur.-Town in Faizabád (Fyzábád) District, Oudh; situated on the Tons river, 52 miles from Faizabád town. Population (1881) 3903, namely, 1820 Muhammadans and 2083 Hindus. Founded by Muhammad Naki about 300 years ago. Nakúr.–South-western tahsil or Sub-division of Saharanpur District, North-Western Provinces, lying along the east bank of the Junina (Jamuna), and watered in part by the Eastern Jumna Canal; comprising the purgans of Nakúr, Sultánpur, Sarsáwar, and Gangoh. Area, 423 square miles, of which 288 are cultivated. Population (1872) 189,022 ; (1881) 201,622, namely, males 108,238, and females 93,384 ; total increase since 1872, 12,600, or 66 per cent in nine years. Hindus (1881) number 130,484; Muhammadans, 68,800; Jains, 2278; and 'others,' 60. Government land revenue, £26,169, or including local rates and cesses, £29,485. Total rental paid by cultivators, £42,893. In 1884, the tahsil contained i criminal court, 5 police circles (thinus), a regular police force numbering 71 men, and 359 village chaukidúrs. Nál.-Petty Bhil State in the Mehwas tract of Khándesh, Bombay Presidency. Population (1881) estimated at 340 persons; supposed gross revenue, £110. The principal produce is timber. From its clinate is unhealthy. The chief. a Bhíl, was educated with his brother at the Kukarmanda school. The family in matters of succession follow the rule of primogeniture; they live at the village of Vághápáni. Nal-Lake in Ahmadábád District, Bombay Presidency; situated between 22° 45' and 22° 50' 15" n. lat., and between 72° 1' 45" and 72° S' 9" E. long., about 37 miles south-west of Ahmadábád city. Estimated area, 49 square miles.—(For a description of the lake, see AHMADABAD DISTRICT, ante, vol. i. p. 83.) Nalagarh (or Hindur). — One of the Punjab Hill States. — See HINDUR. Nalagarh.-Hill range, Punjab. See CHIXTPURNI. Nalápáni (or Kalanga).-Hill fort in Dehra Dún District, NorthWestern Provinces. Lat. 30° 20' 30" x., long. 78° 8' 30" E. (Thornton). Hastily thrown up by the Gúrkhas on the outbreak of the war of 1814. Perched upon a low Himalayan spur, about 31 miles north-east of Dehrá. Attacked by General Gillespie, who fell while leading the storming party ; desperately defended for a time, but evacuated by the enemy after a second assault, and demolished shortly afterwards by the British. Elevation above sea-level, 3286 feet. Nálatwár (or The Forty Gardens). — Town in Bijápur District,