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NAIVALGUND TOIN-NAIL'ANAGAR. 251 females, occupying 16,934 houses. Hindus numbered 78,909 ; Muhammadans, 8145; and others,' 778. Yearly land revenue, £38,286. Nawalgúnd is one of the northern Sub-divisions of Dhárvár District. It is an expanse of black soil, with three hills running from north-west to south-west. The water-supply is chiefly from rivers ; the rainfall is uncertain. Of the 562 square miles, 20 square miles are occupied by the lands of alienated villages. The rest contains 334,212 acres, or 96'i per cent., of cultivable land ; 1980 acres of uncultivable land ; 106 acres of grass; 294 acres of forest; and 11,245 acres of village sites, roads, rivers, and streams. In the 334,212 acres of cultivable land, are 94,025 acres of alienated lands in Government villages. In 1881-82, of 240,208 acres, the whole arca held for tillage, 1420 acres were fallow or under grass. Of the 238,788 acres actually under tillage, grain crops occupied 141,129 acres (82,906 being under wheat); pulses, 11,083 acres; oil-seeds, 19,525 acres ; fibres, 67,566 acres; and miscellaneous crops, 185 acres. Nawalgúnd Sub-division contained in 1883 three criminal courts; police circles (thiinás), 2; regular police, 47 men; village watch (chaukitors), 393. Nawalgúnd. -Chief town of the Nawalgúnd Sub-division of Dhárwár District, Bombay Presidency; situated 24 miles north-east of Dharwar town, in lat. 15° 33' 10" N., and long. 75° 23' 40" E. Population (1881) 7810, namely, Hindus 6467, Muhanımadans 1232, and Jains III, Municipal income (1882-83), f.426 ; incidence of niunicipal taxation, is. id. per head of population. Post-office. The town is celebrated for the excellence of its cotton carpets, and for its superior breed of cattle, which are chiefly sold at the weekly market on Tuesdays. Nawalgúnd, with much of the surrounding country, formerly belonged to a local chief called the Desai of Nawalgúnd. It was conquered by Tipu Sultán, and taken from him by the Maráthás, who gave the Desái's family a maintenance in land yielding £2300 per annum. Three Government and two private schools. Nawalpur.—Petty Bhil State in the Mehwás tract of Khándesh, Bombay Presidency. Population (1881) 180 ; supposed gross revenue (1880), £77. Principal produce, timber. The chief is a Bhil. The family has no patent allowing adoption; succession follows the rule of primogeniture. Nawánagar.-Native State of the first class on the southern shore of the Gulf of Cutch (Kachchh) in the Hallár division of Káthiáwár, Bombay Presidency. Bounded on the north by the Gulf and Rann of Cutch ; on the west by the Okha Rann and the Arabian Sea ; on the east by the Native States of Morvi, Rájkot, Dhrol, and Gondal; and on the south by the Soráth division of Káthiáwár. Area, 1379 square miles. Population (1872) 290,847; (1881) 316,147. The area shown is that returned by the Kathiáwár Political Agent; the Census of 1881