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242 NAUSHAHRA TAHSIL AND TOWN. U houses, 389. The place is notable for its salt manufacture, the annual value of which is about £100,000. Naushahra (Nowshera ; also called Khalsá Khattak tahsil). —Tahsil or Sub-division of Peshawar District, Punjab, consisting of a small tract north of the Kábul river, and of a larger tract stretching southwards from the Kábul river to the Indus, on the Kohát border. Area, 548 square miles, with 121 towns and villages, 13,939 houses, and 17,510 families. Population (1881) 90,584, namely, males 52,373, and females 39,211; average density of population, 165 persons per square nile. Classified according to religion, the population consists of — Muhannadans, 81,961; Hindus, 7005 ; Sikhs, 568; and Christians, 1050. The total average area of cultivated land for the five years 1877-78 to 1881-82, is returned at III square miles, or 70,853 acres, the principal crops being the following :-Wheat, 30,353 acres; barley, 22,382 acres : jour, 3684 acres; and cotton, 963 acres. Revenue of the tahsil, 46875. The administrative staff consists of a tuhsildúr, who presides over i civil and i criminal court. The tahsil is divided into a police circles (thánás), with a regular police force of 57 men, and a rural police or village watch of 156 chaukidurs. Naushahra (Nowshera).—Town, cantonment, and civil station in Peshawar District, Punjab, and head - quarters of the Naushahra Khalsá Khattak tahsil; situated in lat. 33° 59' 50" x., long. 72° 1' 45" E., on the right bank of the Kábul river, 27 miles east of Peshawar city, 19 miles west of Attock, and 15 miles south of Hoti Mardan. The cantonment lies in a small sandy plain, 3 miles in width; surrounded on the east, south, and west by hills, but open on the north toward the Kábul river. There are lines for a British regiment, a regiment of Native cavalry, and another of Native infantry: Busiír, police station, sarii, post - office and telegraph offices; Protestant and Roman Catholic churches. There are two towns of Naushalra, the native town being on the left bank of the river, about 2 miles above the cantonment, and connected with it by a bridge of boats, which is maintained all the year round. A first-class staging bungalow is situated close to the bridge of boats, and in the cantonment is a station of the Punjab Northern State Railway. The drainage is effectively performed by means of natural ravines, and a good and wholesome water-supply is obtained from the river, as well as from wells. Population of Naushahra cantonnient (1881) 5473, namely, males 4345, and females 1128. The native town of Naushahra, on the opposite bank of the river, contains (1881) a separate population of Sogo, namely, males 3879, and females 3611. Including the cantonment and native town, Naushalra contains a total population of 12,963, composed as follows:— Muhammadans, 9032; Hindus, 2820; Sikhs, 93; and others' (almost exclusively European troops), 1018. The native town