ROHILLAS

ROHILLAS
   (i. e. hillmen), a tribe of Afghans who settled in a district N. of Oudh, called Rohilkhand after them, and rose to power in the 18th century, till their strength was broken by the British in 1774.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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