Roh (historical region) explained

Roh was a historical region in present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan^[1] which was the original homeland of the Indian community of Rohillas.^{[2] [3]} The historical region of Rohilkhand in India derives its name from the Rohilla community.^[4] Some of the dynasties of India, namely Lodi, Sur and Karrani dynasties, originated from Roh.

Notes and References

1. Book: Balfour . Edward . 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 . 1883 . Bernard Quaritch . London . 433 . 7 January 2024.
2. Book: Gommans, Jos J.L.. The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire: C. 1710-1780. 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.. BRILL. 1995. 219. 9004101098.
3. Book: Wink, André . The Making of the Indo-Islamic World: c.700–1800 CE . 2020-08-06 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-108-41774-7 . en.
4. Book: Yule . Henry . Burnell . A.C. . Hobson-Jobson The Definitive Glossary of British India . 2013 . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 9780199601134 . 444 . 7 January 2024.