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326 NIL NAG-NIMACH. estimated at £2179, and pays a tribute of £390 to the British Government. The Rájá's militia consists of 28 men, and the police force of 76 men. The State contains 18 schools. Níl Nág. - Lake in Kashmir (Cashmere) State, Northern India, giving rise to a stream which joins the Jehlam (Jhelum) near Barámula. Situated in lat. 33° 48' N., and long. 74° 47' E. (Thornton), on the north-eastern declivity of the Pír Panjal Mountain, 21 miles south-west of Srinagar. Held in great veneration by the Hindus. Nílphámári (or Bagdogra). — Sub-division of Rangpur District, Bengal. Area, 638 square miles; number of towns or villages, 392; houses, 56,609. Population (1881), males 226,484, and females 213;002; total, 439,486. Classified according to religion, there were Muhammadans, 219,906; Hindus, 219,362 ; Christians, 32; Jains, 47; Buddhists, 28; Brahmo, I; Santáls, 12 ; other aborigines, 27; unspecified, 71. Density of population, 689 persons per square mile; villages per square mile, 61; persons per village, 1121; houses per square nuile, 90; persons per house, 708. This Sub-division comprises the three police circles (thúnás) of Dimlá, Jaldháká, and Darwání. In 1883 it contained i criminal and 2 civil courts, with a regular police of 89 of all ranks, and 962 rural police or village watchmen. Nílphámári.–Village in Rangpur District, Bengal, head-quarters of Nilphamári Sub-division, and a station on the Northern Bengal State Railway. A purely agricultural village, of no importance except as the head-quarters of a Sub-division. Nilvála.—Petty State in the Gohelwár division of Kathiáwár, Bombay Presidency; consisting of 1 village, with 2 separate tribute-payers. Estimated revenue, £245; tribute of £51, 25. is paid to the British Government, and £15, 8s. to the Nawab of Junagarh. The inhabitants are pure Káthis. The estate lies 13 miles north-north-west of Lathi railway station on the Bhaunagar-Gondal line. Area, 2 square miles. Population (1831) 512. Nimach (Neemuch).--A town and British cantonment, in the territory of Gwalior, or the possessions of Sindhia, in Central India; situated in lat. 24° 27' 38" N., and long. 74° 54' 15" E., on the north-western border of Málwá, and at a short distance from the boundary separating that tract of country from the State of Mewar in Rajputána. Also a station on the Rajputána-Málwá State Railway. The British territory here was formerly limited to the site of the cantonment and some acres adjoining, sold by Daulat Ráo Sindhia in 1817, according to the provisions of the treaty of Gwalior concluded in that year, as space required by the British Government for stationing a force in the Málwá territory. By a later treaty, however, some more land in the vicinity was obtained. A small fort has been constructed to acconmodate the families of the military when called to a distance on duty;