Rohillas were Afghan Pathans who rose to power in Rohilkhand, India, about the middle of the 18th century. The Mahrattas on one side and Shuja ud-Daula of Oudh on the other pressed them hard; at last Shuja, with the help of British soldiers lent to him by Warren Hastings, succeeded (1773-74) in subduing them. See Sir John Strachey's Hastings and the Rohilla War (Oxford, 1892).
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