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246 NAUTHAN DUBA-NAIVABGANJ. 4270 ; Christians, 44; aboriginal tribes, 7; Brahmos, 6; and Pársís, 2. Gross revenue (1881-82), £12,750. Area under actual cultivation, 58,336 acres. Portions of this táluk suffer from disastrous floods, which have made a desert of what was formerly a flourishing country. Embankments have lately been constructed, and have to some extent proved useful. Number of criminal courts, 2; police circles, 5; regular police, 29 men. Land revenue (1882), £15,627. Nauthán Dubá.–Village in Champáran District, Bengal. Lat. 26° 42' 15' N., long. 84° 32' E. Navasári (Navsári).—Town in the territory of Baroda, Bombay Presidency. ---See NOSARI. Návpur.-Port in Thána District, Bombay Presidency. Average annual value of trade during five years ending 1878-79-imports, £233; exports, £2759. Návpur or Navápur lies in Partenbhi village, about 4 miles south of Tárápur. Nawabandar. — Port in Káthiáwár, Bombay Presidency. — See NAWIBANDAR. Nawabganj.--Central tahsil of Bareli (Bareilly) District, NorthWestern Provinces, conterminous with the parganá of Nawabganj; consisting of a well-tilled portion of the level Rohilkhand plain, with a few shallow grooves cut therein by numerous rivers and canals, which form its most salient feature. The principal of these rivers, proceed. ing from east to west, are the following :-Deoha, Apsara, Pangaili, Bahgúl, Nakatia, and Deoraniya, with several tributaries and irrigation distributary canals. Population (1872) 124, 276; (1881) 117,002, namely, males 62,931, and females 54,071. Decrease in population since 1872, 7274, or 5.8 per cent. in nine years. Classified according to religion, the population in 1881 consisted of-Hindus, 95,470; Muhammadans, 21,531; and 1 'other.' Of the 303 villages in 1881, 227 contained less than five hundred inhabitants ; 61 from five hundred to a thousand ; 12 from one to two thousand; and only 3 from two to three thousand. According to the official statement in 1878, Nawabganj tahsil contains an area of 226 square iniles, of which 177 square miles were then cultivated. Of the total cultivated area, autumn crops occupy 73-15 per cent., and spring crops 2685 per cent. The principal autumn staples are rice, sugar-cane, and bújra, and the principal spring crops, wheat and barley. The area irrigated, either by artificial works, or by natural overflow of alluvial lands, is returned at 57 per cent of the cultivated area. The Government land revenue in 1878 amounted to £22,803, or an average of 45. 7{d. per cultivated acre. Total Government land revenue, including local rates and cesses levied on the land, £25,242. Estimated total rental paid by the cultivators (a large proportion of which is paid in kind), £36,720.