NUDDEA, a town of British India, in the district of Burdwan, at the commencement of the Hooghly River, 80 miles N. of Calcutta. Lat. 23. 25. N., Long. 88. 22. E. It was the capital of a Hindu principality anterior to the Mogul conquest of Hindustan, and was taken and entirely destroyed in 1204. In modern times it has been the seat of a Brahmin seminary of learning; anterior, however, to that of Benares.