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Rohilla, n. and a.|rəʊˈhɪlə|
Also † Rohella, Rohila.
[Pashto ‘inhabitant of Roh’, f. placename Rōh, a district of Afghanistan: see also quot. 1885.]
A. n. A member of a people of Afghan origin inhabiting the Bareilly district of Northern India.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people.
1773W. Hastings Diary 21 Aug. (1948) 6 The Vizier added that the Abdallee maintained a Correspondence with the Rohellas. Ibid., Money..due to the said Nabob by virtue of any engagement between him and the Rohilla chiefs. 1786Burke Wks. (1868) IV. 221 That the said Warren Hastings..did, in September, 1773, enter into a private engagement with the said Nabob of Oude..to furnish him..with a body of troops for the declared purpose of ‘thoroughly extirpating the nation of the Rohillas’. 1829J. Tod Rajast'han I. xxv. 672 The fragments were..placed in position to receive the flesh⁓pots of the sons of Ishmaël, the mercenary Rohilla Afghan. 1885G. C. Whitworth Anglo-Indian Dict. 269/2 Rohillá. [Pashṭo, from roh, a mountain.] The name of a highland clan of Paṭháns who early in the eighteenth century took possession of the district, now called after them, Rohilkhand. 1892Kipling Barrack-Room Ballads 104 We drove the black Rohillas back. 1921G. A. Grierson Linguistic Survey of India X. 9 After the death of Aurangzēb, in 1707, the dissensions among the Hindūs of Bareilly enabled ‘Ali Muḥammed Ḵẖān, the leader of the Rōhilā Paṭhāns, to obtain possession of the country which is now called, after the name of the tribe, Rohilkhand... It is hardly necessary to point out the connexion between Rōh and Rōhilā. The latter word means literally an inhabitant of the Rōh. 1960J. S. Watson Reign of George III xii. 309 These Afghan soldiers of fortune, called the Rohillas, were suspected of co-operation with the Marathas. 1971R. Russell tr. Ahmad's Shore & Wave vi. 52 Some Rohillas had recently been arrested and charged with a series of burglaries and armed robberies. |