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238 NASIRABAD SUB-DIVISION AND CANTONMENT. Nasírábád. -- Sub-division of Khándesh District, Bombay Presidency. Area, 318 square miles, containing 2 towns and 86 villages. Population (1872) 60,109; (1881) 69,526, namely, 35,427 males and 34,099 females. Hindus number 60,622; Muhammadans, 6725; and others,' 2179. Land revenue (1882), 22,845. The Tápti, the Vághar, and the Girna bound the Sub-division on the north, east, and west, and are perennial streams. The country is a rich black plain, most of which is highly cultivated. Climate healthy; average rainfall, 30*7 inches. In 1859-60 the survey settlement was introduced, and disclosed 6809 holdings, with an average extent of 173 acres, paying an average assessment of £2, 16s. 3d. ; incidence of land-tax, 75. 8. d. per head. Of the total area of 318 square miles, 158,089 acres were returned as cultivable at the time of the revenue survey; 32,139 acres uncultivable; 3002 acres under grass; and 10,403 acres of village sites, roads, rivers, and streams. Of the 158,089 acres of cultivable land, 12,761 acres were alienated lands. Of the remaining 145,328 acres, the area taken up for cultivation in 1878–79 was 119,031 acres. Grain crops occupied 72,588 acres, of which 36,427 acres were under jour, and 21,390 under bájra; pulses occupied 2902 acres; oil-seeds, 6677 acres, of which 4043 were under linseed; fibres, 30,619 acres, of which 30,592 were under cotton; and miscellaneous crops, 6145 acres. Nasírábád.—Town in the Nasirábád Sub-division of Khandesh rict, Bombay Presidency; situated 2 miles south of Bhadli station on the North-Eastern Line of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, and 8 miles south-west of Bhusáwal. Lat. 20° 58' 30" N., long. 75° 41' 30" E. Population (1881) 10,243, namely, 5129 males and 5114 females. Hindus numbered 7693; Muhammadans, 2295; Jains, 200; and others,' 55. The town is noted for the manufacture of glass bangles by Musalmáns. There are several old mosques in the neighbourhood. JALGAON, the head-quarters of the Sub-division, lies about 6 miles to the west. Nasírábád was several times harried by the Bhils of the Sátmála range before the occupation of the country by the British. In 1801 it was plundered by a freebooter named Juba, and again, just before the great faniine of 1803, by one of the Peshwa's deputies. After this the village wall was built by one of the Purandhari family, to whom the town was given in grant. Nasírábád.-Cantonment in Ajmere-Merwárá, Rájputána; situated in lat. 26° 18' 45" N., and long. 74° 47' E., on a bleak, open plain, sloping eastward from the Aravalli Hills. Population (1881) of cantonment, 2838; of town, 18,482: total, 21,320, namely, 11,462 males and 9858 females. Hindus numbered 1.,843; Muhammadans, 5033 ; Christians, 1029; Jains, 281; Pársís, 44; Jews, 73; and Sikhs, 17. Area of town and cantonment, 8.5 square miles. The station,