THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1748–1774

Rohilkhand (Rohilla state)

Rohilla Afghan chiefs led by Ali Muhammad Khan made the country between the Ganges and Kumaon (Bareilly, Moradabad, Bijnor, Budaun) a state independent of Delhi by the 1740s. Awadh, helped by Company troops, conquered it in the Rohilla War of 1774, leaving only Rampur to the Rohillas.

Najib-ud-Daula held Najibabad (Bijnor). The year 1748 brought Ali Muhammad's death and the Durrani-backed restoration; earlier dates are uncertain.

See Rohilkhand (Rohilla state) on the map in 1748

On the map
1748–1774
Capital
Aonla; Bareilly

Rulers named in the sources

South Asian kingdoms, 1550–1857

From the fall of Vijayanagara's capital to the Revolt of 1857, beside the Mughal, Maratha, Durrani and British realms and a few successor states, many kingdoms ruled themselves. In the south: Travancore, Cochin, the Zamorin's Calicut, the Keladi Nayakas, the last Aravidu kings of Vijayanagara, the Nayaks of Gingee, and Mysore through the Wodeyar, Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan periods. In the Deccan and centre: the Gond kingdoms of Garha-Mandla, Deogarh and Chanda, Bastar, Ratanpur, Hyderabad after 1799, Nagpur, Satara, and the Holkar, Scindia and Gaekwad states after 1818. In the north: the Rajput kingdoms and Jat Bharatpur after the Mughal collapse, Rohilkhand, the reduced Awadh of 1803–56, Kumaon, Garhwal, Ladakh and Sikkim. In the east: the Ahom, Koch, Kachari, Jaintia, Manipur and Tripura kingdoms. In the west: Kutch and the Khanate of Kalat.

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