Roh (historical region)
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Roh was a historical region spanning present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan, recognising as the original homeland of the Indian community known as the Rohillas.[1][2][3] The name Rohilkhand, a historian region in India, is derived from this community.[4] Notably, several dynasties of India, including the Lodi dynasty, Sur dynasty and Karrani dynasty, trace their origins back to Roh, highlighting its importance in the region's historical narrative.
References
[edit]- ^ Balfour, Edward (1883). The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia Commercial, Industrial and Scientific, Products of the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Kingdoms, Useful Arts and Manufactures · Volume 3. London: Bernard Quaritch. p. 433. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ Gommans, Jos J.L. (1995). The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire: C. 1710-1780. BRILL. p. 219. ISBN 9004101098.
The designation Rohilla developed during the seventeenth century as a fairly broad notion of the people coming from Roh or Rõh, corresponding roughly with the mountainous terrain of the eastern Hindu Kush and the Sulaiman Range. Only in the seventeenth-century Indian and Indo-Afghan works do we find Roh frequently used as a more specific geographical term which corresponded with the territory stretching from Swat and Bajaur in the north to Sibi and Bhakkar in Sind, and from Hasan Abdal in the east to Kabul and Kandahar in the west.
- ^ Wink, André (6 August 2020). The Making of the Indo-Islamic World: c.700–1800 CE. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-41774-7.
- ^ Yule, Henry; Burnell, A.C. (2013). Hobson-Jobson The Definitive Glossary of British India. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 444. ISBN 9780199601134. Retrieved 7 January 2024.