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224 NARSINGHPUR TAHSIL AND TOIVN. medical relief to 17,416 in-door and out-door patients. Vital statistics showed in the same year a death-rate of 35'95 per thousand, the mean of the preceding five years being 37'76 per thousand. [For further information regarding Narsinghpur, see the Central Provinces Gazetteer, by Mr. (now Sir Charles) Grant, pp. 354-370 (Nágpur, 1870); the Census Report of the Central Proc'inces for 1881; and the several annual Administration and Departmental Reports of the Central Provinces Government.] Narsinghpur.—The eastern tahsil or Şub-division of Narsinghpur District, Central Provinces. Area, 1042 square miles, with i town and 538 villages, and 41,922 houses. Population (1872) 148,580 ; (1881) 175,336, namely, males 89:343, and females 85,993 ; increase of population since 1872, 26,756, or iso per cent. in nine years. Average density of population, 168-3 persons per square mile. The total adult agricultural population (male and female) in 1881 numbered 48,404, or 27.6 per cent of the whole Sub-divisional population; the average area of available cultivated and cultivable land being 8 acres per adult agriculturist. Of the total area of the tahsil (1042 square miles), 135 square miles are held revenue free ; while 907 square miles are assessed for Government revenue, of which 483 square miles are returned as under cultivation, and 95 square miles as arailable for cultivation, the remainder being uncultivable waste. Total amount of Government land revenue, including local rates and cesses levied on the land, £23,263, or an average of is. 4 d. per cultivated acre. Amount of rent, including cesses, paid by the cultivators, £46,514, or an average of 25. 11 d. per cultivated acre. Narsinghpur Sub-division contained in 1883, 5 civil and 10 criminal courts (including the District headquarter courts), with 4 police circles (thánás), and 10 outpost stations (chaukis), a regular police force numbering 121 men, and 649 village chaukidárs. Narsinghpur (with Kandeli).-Chief town of Narsinghpur District, Central Provinces; situated in lat. 22° 56' 35" N., and long. 79° 14' 45" E., on the river Singrí, which has been dammed up to supply the town with water. The town was formerly called Gidaria-kherá, or, under the Maráthás, when it became the head-quarters of their force in the Narbadá (Nerbudda) valley, Chhotá Gádarwárá. It took its present name after the erection of a large temple to Narsinha, one of the incarnations of Vishnu. It is an important entrepôt for the grain and cotton trade of the Narbadá valley. Population (1872) 12,111 ; (1881) 10,222, namely, males 5134, and females 5088. Hindus number 7816; Muhammadans, 18.46; Kabírpanthis, 34; Jains, 316: Christians, 69 ; Parsis, 3; and aboriginal tribes, 138. Municipal revenue (1882–83), £967, of which £815 was derived from taxation (octroi duties); average incidence of taxation, is. 7d. per