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NAWABGANJ TOITA-NAITADA. 249 Bhagwantnagar. The trade on leaving Nawabganj takes two main directions-one by the Gogra to Patna and Lower Bengal; the other through Faizabad to Cawnpur and the cotton country. The main export by the latter is rice, while Bengal absorbs the greatest part of the oil-seeds, Indian corn, and hides. Nawabganj.— Town in Unao District, Oudh; situated 12 miles north-east of Unao town, on the Lucknow road. Population (1881) 2606, namely, Hindus 2206, and Muhammadans 400. Formerly the head-quarters of a tahsil and police circle, but these having been removed, the place has decayed. A large fair is held every year at the end of the month of Chaitra in honour of the goddesses Durgi and which attracts a large gathering from Lucknow and Cawnpur, besides the people of the neighbourhood. Nawabganj (now called the North Barrackpur Vuniti pality'). --Town and municipality in the Barrackpur Sub-division of the District of the Twenty-four l'arganas, Bengal. Lat. 22° 45' 40" x., long, 88° 23' 52" E. Population (1872) 16,525 ; (1881) 17,702, namely, males 9550, and females 8152. Classified according to religion, the population in 1881 consisted of-Hindus, 14,050 ; Muhammadans, 3623 ; and others,' 29. Municipal income (1883-84), £966, of which £926 was derived from taxation; average incidence of taxation, 15. old. per head. Municipal police, 52 men. Adjacent to Nawabganj is the small village of Palta, from whence the water-supply of Calcutta is derived. Nawábganj.- Village in Purniah District, Bengal; situated in lat. 25° 29' N., and long. 87° 17' E., 34 miles from Purniah town, and 12 from the banks of the Ganges, opposite Sahibganj. It is considered to include the village of Bakhmára, which lies a mile distant; the whole was let from 1873 to 1878 as an indigo farm. Population not returned in the Census, but estimated at 1500. Primary school. The town is said to have been founded in order to protect the route from Purniah to Rájmahal (the seat of Government in the later Musalmán times), which was infested by gangs of robbers. Nawabganj contains an old fort in ruins, covering an area of about so acres. Exports of rice, jute, tobacco, indigo, and oil-seeds; imports of piece-goods, spices, brass and iron ware, etc. Nawada.-Sub-division of Gaya District, Bengal, lying between 24° 30' 30" and 25° 7' n. lat., and between 85° 15' 30" and 86° 6' E. long. Area, 1020 square miles; villages, 1817; houses, 77,786. Population (1872) 444,996; (1881) 488,488, namely, males 242,326, and females 246,162, showing an increase of 43,492, or 9977 per cent., in nine years. The Hindus in 1881 numbered 439,117; Nuhammadans, 49,369: and Christians, 2. Average density of population, 479 persons per square mile; inhabitants per village, 268 ; houses per square mile, 84:6; inmates per house, 63. This Sub-division