Contents
1 Origin 2 History
2.1 Early history
2.2 Following the Battle of
Panipat
Panipat in 1761
2.3 Establishment of Rampur State
2.4 The 1857 War of Independence
2.5 Between 1857 and 1947
3 Present circumstances
3.1 In India 3.2 In Pakistan
4
Rohilla
Rohilla notables
5 See also
6 References
7 Further reading
Origin[edit]
The term
Rohilla
Rohilla is derived from the word Roh, meaning mountain, and
literally means mountain wind. Roh was the name of the area around
Peshawar city, in Pakistan.
Yousafzai Pathans especially the Mandarr
sub clan living in this valley were also known as Rohillas when they
settled the area then known as Katehr. It later became known as Rohil
Khand which means the land of the Rohillas. "The great majority of
Rohillas migrated here between 17th and 18th Century."[2][3]
History[edit]
Early history[edit]
Patthargarh fort outside Najibabad, built by
Najib-ud-Daula
Najib-ud-Daula in 1755.
1814–15 painting.
The founders of the Pashtun state of
Rohilkhand
Rohilkhand were Daud Khan and his
adopted son Ali Muhammad Khan Bangash. Daud Khan arrived in South Asia
in 1705. He brought along a band of his tribe, the Barech. Daud Khan
was awarded the Katehr region in the then northern India by Mughal
emperor
Aurangzeb
Aurangzeb (ruled 1658–1707) to suppress
Rajput
Rajput uprisings,
which had afflicted this region. Originally, some 20,000 soldiers from
various Pashtun tribes such as (Yusafzai, Ghori, Ghilzai, Barech,
Marwat, Durrani, Tareen, Kakar, Naghar, Afridi,
Bangash
Bangash and Khattak)
were hired by Mughals to provide mercenary soldier for the Mughal
armies. This was appreciated by
Aurangzeb
Aurangzeb and since this force of
25,000 men was given respected positions in the Mughal Army.
Daud Khan was succeeded by Ali Muhammad Khan in 1721. He became so
powerful that he refused to send tax revenues to the central
government. Safdar Jang, the
Nawab
Nawab of Oudh,[4] warned the Mughal
emperor Muhammad Shah[5] of the growing power of the Rohillas. This
caused Mohammed Shah to send an expedition against him as a result of
which he surrendered to imperial forces. He was taken to
Delhi
Delhi as a
prisoner, but was later pardoned and appointed governor of Sirhind.
Most of his soldiers has already settled in the
Katehar
Katehar region during
Nadir Shah's invasion of northern India in 1739 increasing the Rohilla
population in the area to 100,000. Due to the large settlement of
Rohilla
Rohilla Afghans, this part
Katehar
Katehar region came to be known as
Rohilkhand.
Bareilly
Bareilly was made the capital of this newly formed
Rohilkhand
Rohilkhand state.[6]
When Ali Muhammad Khan died, leaving six sons. However, two of his
elder sons were in
Afghanistan
Afghanistan at the time of his death while the
other four were too young to assume the leadership of Rohilkhand. As a
result, power transferred to other
Rohilla
Rohilla Sardars, the most important
being
Hafiz Rahmat Khan
Hafiz Rahmat Khan Barech,
Najib-ud-Daula
Najib-ud-Daula and Dundi Khan.
According to the 1901 census of India, the total Pathan (Pashtun)
population of
Bareilly
Bareilly District was 40,779, while the total population
was 1,090,117.[7]
Following the Battle of
Panipat
Panipat in 1761[edit]
In the third battle of
Panipat
Panipat (1761) one of the
Rohilla
Rohilla Sardars,
Najib-ul-Daula, allied himself with Ahmad Shah Abdali[8] against the
Marathas. He not only provided 40,000
Rohilla
Rohilla troops but also 70 guns
to the allied. He also convinced Shuja-ul-Daula, the
Nawab
Nawab of Oudh, to
join Ahmad Shah Abdali's forces against the Marathas. In this battle,
the
Marathas
Marathas were defeated and as a consequence the
Rohilla
Rohilla increased
in power.
The
Marathas
Marathas invaded
Rohilkhand
Rohilkhand to retaliate against the Rohillas'
participation in the
Panipat
Panipat war. The
Marathas
Marathas under the leadership of
the Maratha ruler
Mahadji Shinde
Mahadji Shinde entered the land of Sardar
Najib-ud-Daula
Najib-ud-Daula which was held by his son
Zabita Khan
Zabita Khan after the
sardar's death.
Zabita Khan
Zabita Khan initially resisted the attack but was
eventually defeated by the
Marathas
Marathas and forced to flee to the camp of
Shuja-ud-Daula
Shuja-ud-Daula and his country was ravaged by Marathas. The Maratha
ruler
Mahadji Shinde
Mahadji Shinde captured the family of Zabita Khan, desecrated
the grave of
Najib ad-Dawlah
Najib ad-Dawlah and looted his fort.[9] The principal
remaining
Rohilla
Rohilla
Sardar
Sardar was
Hafiz Rahmat Khan
Hafiz Rahmat Khan
Barech and through him
an agreement was formed with the
Nawab
Nawab of Oudh, Shuja-ud-Daula, by
which the Rohillas agreed to pay four million rupees in return for
military help against the Marathas. However, after
Oudh
Oudh attacked the
Rohillas, they refused to pay.
Later Rohillas were attacked by the neighbouring kingdom of Oudh, who
also received assistance from the
British East India Company
British East India Company forces
under Colonel Alexander Champion. This conflict is known as the
Rohilla
Rohilla War. When
Hafiz Rahmat Khan
Hafiz Rahmat Khan
Barech was killed, in April 1774,
Rohilla
Rohilla resistance crumbled, and
Rohilkhand
Rohilkhand was annexed by the kingdom
of Oudh. Rohillas fled into the dense forests across the Ganges, and
later began a guerrilla war. In response, many Rohillas were hunted
down by the troops of British East India company and subsequently
scattered in the countryside. They settled in many small towns and
cities. Charges of ethnic cleansing and genocide were brought against
Warren Hastings
Warren Hastings of the East India Company, by
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke and were
later taken up by Thomas Babington Macaulay.
From 1774 to 1799, the region was administered by Khwaja Almas Khan, a
Muslim Jat from Haryana, as representative of the Awadh(kingdom of
Oudh) rulers. This period was particularly tough for the Rohillas, as
Almas Khan made every effort to weaken the Rohillas. In 1799, British
East India company annexed the territory, and started to pay a pension
to the family of
Hafiz Rahmat Khan
Hafiz Rahmat Khan Barech.[10]
Establishment of Rampur State[edit]
Princely flag of Rampur.
Nawab
Nawab Muhammad Khan Bangash, ca 1730, Bibliothèque nationale de
France, Paris
While most of
Rohilkhand
Rohilkhand was annexed, the
Rohilla
Rohilla State of Rampur was
established by
Nawab
Nawab
Faizullah Khan
Faizullah Khan on 7 October 1774 in the presence
of British Commander Colonel Champion, and remained a pliant state
under British protection thereafter. The first stone of the new Fort
at Rampur was laid in 1775 by
Nawab
Nawab Faizullah Khan. The first Nawab
proposed to rename the city Faizabad, but many other places were known
by that name so its name was changed to Mustafabad.
Nawab
Nawab
Faizullah Khan
Faizullah Khan ruled for 20 years. He was a patron of education
and began the collection of Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hindustani
manuscripts which are now housed in the Rampur Raza Library. After his
death his son Muhammad Ali Khan took over. He was assassinated by
Rohilla
Rohilla elders after reigning for 24 days, and Muhammad Ali Khan's
brother, Ghulam Muhammad Khan, was proclaimed Nawab. The East India
Company took exception to this, and after a reign of just 3 months and
22 days Ghulam Muhammad Khan was besieged and defeated by English
forces. East India company supported Muhammad Ali Khan's son, Ahmad
Ali Khan, to be the new Nawab. He ruled for 44 years. He did not have
any sons, so Muhammad Saeed Khan, son of Ghulam Muhammad Khan, took
over as the new
Nawab
Nawab after his death. He established Courts and
improved the economic conditions of farmers. His son Muhammad Yusuf
Ali Khan took over after his death and his son, Kalb Ali Khan, became
the new
Nawab
Nawab after his death in 1865.[11]
Nawab
Nawab of Rampur
Reign Began
Reign Ended
1 Ali Muhammad Khan 1719 15 September 1748
2 Faizullah Khan 15 September 1748 24 July 1793
3
Hafiz Rahmat Khan
Hafiz Rahmat Khan
Barech - Regent
15 September 1748
23 April 1774
4 Muhammad Ali Khan Bahadur 24 July 1793 11 August 1793
5 Ghulam Muhammad Khan Bahadur 11 August 1793 24 October 1794
6 Ahmad Ali Khan Bahadur 24 October 1794 5 July 1840
7 Nasrullah Khan - Regent 24 October 1794 1811
8 Muhammad Said Khan Bahadur 5 July 1840 1 April 1855
9 Yusef Ali Khan Bahadur 1 April 1855 21 April 1865
10 Kalb Ali Khan Bahadur 21 April 1865 23 March 1887
11 Muhammad Mushtaq Ali Khan Bahadur 23 March 1887 25 February 1889
12 Hamid Ali Khan Bahadur 25 February 1889 20 June 1930
14 Gen.Azeemudin Khan - Regent 25 February 1889 4 April 1894
15 Raza Ali Khan Bahadur 20 June 1930 6 March 1966
16
Murtaza Ali Khan Bahadur
Murtaza Ali Khan Bahadur - Nawabat abolished in 1971
6 March 1966
8 February 1982
17 Zulfikar Ali Khan Bahadur 8 February 1982 5 April 1992
18 Muhammad Kazim Ali Khan Bahadur 5 April 1992 Incumbent
The 1857 War of Independence[edit]
The Rohillas took an active part in War of Independence of 1857
against British imperial forces. The leader of the revolt in
Rohilkhand
Rohilkhand was Khan Bahadur Khan Rohilla, the son of Hafiz Rahmat
Khan. For a short period, British rule disappeared from Rohilkhand,
and the Rohillas were left in charge. But the revolt was suppressed,
and in its wake the British reorganized the government of South Asia,
bringing an end to British East India Company's regime and leading to
almost a century of direct rule by Britain Crown. this period is known
as the British Raj. While the followers of Khan Bahadur Khan had
participated in the revolt, the Rohillas of Rampur had remained loyal
to the British. Significant groups of Rohillas also sought refuge in
state of Tonk in Rajasthan, which was ruled by Rohillas Pashtun
nawabs, and now forms the core of the Tonkia Pathans.[12]
When the rebellion failed,
Bareilly
Bareilly was subjugated.
Rohilla
Rohilla ruler Khan
Bahadur Khan was sentenced to death and hanged in Kotwali on 24
February 1860. As many urban cities in
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh were experiencing
economic stagnation and poverty after the failed rebellion, many
Rohilla
Rohilla Pathans from Rampur and surrounding cities migrated to
Caribbean South American Countries such as present day
Surinam
Surinam and
Guyana
Guyana forming a part of the local
Indo-Caribbean
Indo-Caribbean population.[citation
needed]
Between 1857 and 1947[edit]
The period between the revolt of 1857 and the independence of India
and
Pakistan
Pakistan in 1947 was a period of stability for the Rohilla
community. In 1858, the British government issued a general pardon to
all those who had taken part in the War of Independence and restored
many lands. Some of the tribes were punished for aiding the rebels.
Some tribes had to migrate to
Delhi
Delhi and Gurgaon, while others migrated
to the Deccan region. Conditions improved after some years and
migration from the North West Frontier Province and Afghanistan
recommenced, adding to the
Rohilla
Rohilla population. During this period, the
Rohillas were also effected by the reformist movement of Sir Syed
Ahmed Khan, with many taking to modern education. The founder of the
Barelvi
Barelvi sect of
Sunni
Sunni Islam, Ahmad Raza Khan, was also born among the
Rohillas and the city of
Bareilly
Bareilly became an important centre of
Islamic learning in Northern India.
While a majority of Rohillas remained landowners and cultivators, a
significant minority took to western education, and entered
professions such as law and medicine. They also began to take an
interest in the political debates during the last decade of the 19th
Century. Some of them joined the newly formed Indian National
Congress, while others were attracted to pan-Islamism. This period
also saw a wholesale adoption of North Indian Muslim culture, with
Urdu
Urdu becoming the native language of the Rohilla. In fact the term of
Rohilla
Rohilla was slowly replaced with the term "Pathan", which was a new
self-identification. However a sense of distinct identity remained
strong, with the Rohillas residing in distinct quarters of cities,
such as,
Kakar
Kakar Tola, Pani Tola and
Gali Nawaban
Gali Nawaban in Bareilly, which was
home to the descendents of Hafiz Rahmat Khan. There was little or
intermarriage with neighbouring Muslim communities such as the Shaikh,
Muslim
Rajput
Rajput and Kamboh. Thus at the dawn of independence, the
Rohilla
Rohilla were still a distinct community.[13]
Present circumstances[edit]
The independence of
Pakistan
Pakistan and India in 1947 had a profound effect
on the
Rohilla
Rohilla community. The vast majority of them emigrated to
Pakistan
Pakistan in 1947. Those that were left in India, were affected by the
abolishment of the zamindari system in 1949, as well as the ascension
of the State of Rampur to India and many of them migrated to join
their kinsmen in Karachi, Pakistan. The
Rohilla
Rohilla now form two distinct
communities with the majority in
Pakistan
Pakistan and a small minority
residing in India.
In India[edit]
The
Rohilla
Rohilla now form one of the larger Muslim communities of Uttar
Pradesh and are found throughout Uttar Pradesh, with settlements in
Rampur, Bareilly,
Shahjahanpur
Shahjahanpur in
Rohilkhand
Rohilkhand being the densest. They
now speak Hindustani in towns, and
Khari boli
Khari boli in their rural
settlements.
The Pathan (Rohilla) community of UP has sixteen sub-groups, the
Ghilzai, Afridi, Barakzai, Barech, Daudzai, Marwat, Durrani, Naghar,
Ghorghushti, Ghori, Kakar, Khalil, Mohmand, Mohammadzai, Orakzai,
Yousafzai and Wazir, all of which are descended from well known
Pashtun tribes. Some
Rohilla
Rohilla Pathans reside in Maharashtra's Washim
and Nanded district, Tehsil Kinwat Tribal Area. There is also a small
population in Bendi and Kopra, two villages in Kinwat Taluka. In older
parts of the Muslim areas of the towns in UP, the Pathans have
maintained their own residential neighbourhoods. The Pathan are not an
endogamous group, and arranged marriages do occur with other Sunni
Muslim communities of similar social status, such as the Mughal tribe,
Muslim
Rajput
Rajput and Shaikh although there is still a preference of
marriage within the community.
The Rohia have historically been landowners and soldiers, therefore,
some parts of the community are associated with agriculture in
Rohilkhand, while many
Rohilla
Rohilla officers who worked in the British
Indian Army in the 1940s migrated to
Pakistan
Pakistan and joined the Pakistani
Army; famous among them are General
Rahimuddin Khan
Rahimuddin Khan and General Akhtar
Abdur Rahman. They have also been prominent in the Muslim religious
sphere in UP, having produced many alims and huffaz and have built and
financed many mosques and madrassahs. In terms of formal education,
they are seen as a community that has a favourable attitude towards
western education, and many are professional doctors and lawyers.[14]
In Pakistan[edit]
In Pakistan, the
Rohilla
Rohilla and other Urdu-speaking Pathans now form part
of a larger migrant
Urdu
Urdu speaking community. The sense of corporate
identity is much weaker than in India, and degree of intermarriage
with other communities within the Muhajir umbrella is high. They are
found mainly in Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, and other urban areas of
Sindh.[15] Many have held high positions in the government, notably
Sahibzada Yaqub Khan, a
Rohilla
Rohilla immigrant, who was Pakistan's foreign
minister during the 1980s.
Rohilla
Rohilla notables[edit]
Khan Bahadur Khan Rohilla Najib-ud-daula Hafiz Rahmat Khan Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi General Akhtar Abdur Rehman General Rahimuddin Khan
See also[edit]
Battle of Rohilla Pashtuns Pashtun diaspora Pathans of Bihar Pathans of Uttar Pradesh Pathans of Punjab Pathans of Sindh Pathans of Gujarat
References[edit]
^ People of India:
Maharashtra
Maharashtra Volume XLII edited by Gulbaran pathan.
^ Haleem, Safia (24 July 2007). "Study of the Pathan Communities in
Four States of India". Khyber Gateway. Farrukhabad has a mixed
population of Pathans dominated by the
Bangash
Bangash and Yousafzais.
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^ Haleem, Safia (24 July 2007). "Study of the Pathan Communities in
Four States of India". Khyber Gateway. This is the area in U.P (Utter
Pradesh) Province, in which Pashtoons were either given land by the
emperors or they settled for Trade purposes. Roh was the name of the
area around Peshawar city, in Pakistan.
Yousafzai Pathans especially
Mandarr sub clan, living in this valley were also known as Rohillas
when they settled down the area was known as Katehr, which literally
means soft well-aerated loam which is extremely suitable for
cultivation. It later became known as Rohil Khand (the land of the
Rohillas). The great majority of Rohillas migrated between 17th and
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^
Nawab
Nawab was the title of notables during the Mughal era in India, who
helped the central authority govern different statelets within the
South Asia. During the British period, new nawabs were created because
of the allocation of arable land to the pro-British elite
^ Mohammad Shah (1702–1748) was a Mughal emperor of Mughal empire
between 1719 and 1748
^ An Eighteenth Century History of North India: An Account Of The Rise
And Fall Of The
Rohilla
Rohilla Chiefs In Janbhasha by Rustam Ali Bijnori by
Iqtidar Husain
Siddiqui Manohar Publications
^ Imperial Gazetteer of India by W M Hunter
^
Ahmad Shah Abdali
Ahmad Shah Abdali (died 1772) adopted the title of Durr-i Dowran
(pearl of pearls), which gave the name to the dynasty he established,
the Durrani, which lasted in
Afghanistan
Afghanistan until 1973
^ The Great Maratha Mahadji Scindia by N. G. Rathod p.8-9
^ The Rise and Decline of the Ruhela by Iqbal Hussain Oxford India
^ Hastings and the
Rohilla War by John Strachey
^ People of India:
Rajasthan
Rajasthan Volume XXXVIII Part Two edited by B.K
Lavania, D. K Samanta, S K Mandal & N.N Vyas pages 747 to 749
Popular Prakashan
^ The Rise and Decline of the Ruhela by Iqbal Hussain
^ People of India:
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part Three Amir Hasaan, B
R Rizvi and J C Das editors pages 1138-1141 Manohar publications
^ A People of Migrants: Ethnicity, State and Religion in
Karachi
Karachi by
Oskar Verkaik
Further reading[edit]
Gulistán-I Rahmat of Nawáb Mustajáb Khán. Hastings and the Rohilla War by John Strachey. Author(s) of Review: Sidney James Owen The English Historical Review, Vol. 8, No. 30 (Apr., 1893), pp. 373–380
Wikisource
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article
Rohilla.
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Meta Qureshi
Miyana
Molesalam
Momna
Mughal
Multani
Multani Lohar
Mutwa
Nagori
Nayak
Node
Panar
Parmar
Patani Bohra
Patni Jamat
Pathans of Gujarat
Salaat
Samma
Sandhai Muslims
Sanghar
Shaikhs of Gujarat
Shaikhda
Sayyid
Sayyid of Gujarat
Siddi
Sipahi
Soomra
Sulaymani
Sulaymani Bohra
Sunni
Sunni Bohra
Surti Muslims
Tai
Turk Jamat
Vora Patel
Vyapari
Wagher
Originally from Karnataka
Baghban Beary Chaush Kodagu Mappila Konkani Muslims Nawayath Siddi
Originally from Kerala
Koya Mappila Marikkar Thangal Thulukkar
Originally from Rajasthan
Ansari Bhutta Cheetah Deshwali Gaddi Ghosi Khadim Khanzada Merat Meo Mughal Pathans of Rajasthan Pinjara Qaimkhani Rangrez Rath Shaikhs of Rajasthan Silawat Sindhi-Sipahi Sorgar
Originally from Tamil Nadu
Kayalar Labbay Mara