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416 NOIVSIERA—NUH. troops in Nowgong cantonment belong to the Ságar (Saugor) District within the limits of the Central India Agency. In 1883, the military force consisted of a battery of Royal Artillery, a detachment of the Rifle Brigade, a detachment of Bengal Cavalry, and a regiment of Native Infantry. The Rájkumár College, established by the native chiefs of Bundelkhand in memory of Lord Mayo, is at Nowgong; it was opened in the year 1875–76, and in its second year there were on the rolls the names of 35 young chiefs, including the minor Rájás of Chhatarpur, Sarila, and Khania-dhána. In 1883-84, the average attendance of young chiefs at the college was io, and at one time during the year 18. There is a good metalled road between Nowgong and the sadr station of Bánda. The main road from Satná station, on the Jabalpur extension of the East Indian Railway, to Gwalior passes through Nowgong. The cantonment is generally described as a healthy one ; and in the year 1875-76, an epidemic of cholera, which appeared in Western Bundelkhand, died out to the west of Nowgong. Dispensary. Nowshera.—Tahsil, cantonment, and town in Pesháwar District, Punjab.—See NAUSHAHRA. Nowshera.—Town in Hazára District, Punjab.—See NAWASHAHR. Nowshero.— Táluk in Shikárpur District, Sind, Bombay Presidency. - See NAUSHAHRO ABRO. Nowshero.-Sub-division, táluk, and town in Haidarábád District, Sind, Bombay Presidency.—See NAUSHAHRO. Noyagni.—Pass in Kashmir State, Northern India.–See NABOG NA. Noyil.River in Coimbatore District, Madras Presidency; rises in lat. 10° 55' 45" N., and long. 76° 45' 40" E., in the Velingiri Hills, and, flowing across the District from west to east, joins the Káveri (Cauvery) (lat. 11° 4' N., long. 77° 59' 30" E.) in Karúr táluk. It has 16 anicuts, from which 13,060 acres of land are irrigated, yielding a revenue of about £10,000. Nuddea.—District, Sub-division, and town in Bengal.— See Nadira. Núh.–Central tahsil of Gurgaon District, Punjab, lying between 27° 57' and 28° 10' N. lat., and between 76° 58' and 77° 11' E. long. Area, 403 square miles, with 254 towns and villages, 11,691 houses, and 36,822 families. Population (1881) 120,324; namely, males 63,938, and females 56,386; average density of population, 299 persons per square mile. Classified according to religion, the population consists of — Hindus, 62,457; Muhammadans, 57,613 ; Jains, 234; Sikhs, 17; and Christians, 3. Of the 254 towns and villages, 190 contain less than five hundred inhabitants, 36 from five hundred to a thousand, and 28 from one to five thousand. The average area under crops for the five years 1877–78 to 1881-82 is returned at 218 square miles, the area under the principal crops being as follows :