ROHTAK  , a See also:

• TOWN

town and See also:

• DISTRICT

district of See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, in the See also:

• DELHI, DEHLI

Delhi See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of the See also:

• PUNJAB

Punjab . The town, which is of See also:

• GREAT

great antiquity, became the headquarters of a British district in 1824 . Viewed from the sandhills to the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south, Rohtak, with its See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white See also:

• MOSQUE (through Fr. mosquie; Span. mezquila, from Arab. masjid, sajada, to adore)

mosque in the centre, a fort See also:

• STANDING

standing out boldly to the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east, is striking and picturesque . It has a station on the See also:

• SOUTHERN

Southern Punjab railway, 44 M . N.W. of Delhi . Pop . (1901) 20,323 . It is an important See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade centre, with factories for ginning and pressing See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton, and a speciality in See also:

• MUSLIN (through Fr. mousseline from It. mussolino, diminutive of Mussolo, i.e. the town Mosul in Kurdistan)

muslin turbans . The district of Rohtak has an See also:

• AREA

area of 1797 sq. m . It is situated in the midst of the level tableland between the See also:

• JUMNA, or JAMUNA

Jumna and the See also:

• SUTLEJ

Sutlej, forming one unbroken See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain of hard See also:

• CLAY (from O. Eng. claeg, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Klei)
• CLAY, CASSIUS MARCELLUS (1810-1903)
• CLAY, CHARLES (1801–1893)
• CLAY, FREDERIC (1838–1889)
• CLAY, HENRY (1777–1852)

clay copiously interspersed with See also:

• LIGHT

light yellow See also:

• SAND
• SAND, GEORGE (1804-1876)

sand, and covered in its See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state by a See also:

• JUNGLE (Sans. jangala)

jungle of scrubby brushwood . The only natural See also:

• RESERVOIR

reservoir for its drainage is the Najafgarh jhil, a marshy See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

lake lying within the boundaries of Delhi . The Sahibi, a small stream from the See also:

• AJMERE, or AJMER

Ajmere hills, traverses a corner of the district, and the See also:

• NORTHERN

northern portions are watered by the Rohtak and Butana branches of the Western Jumna See also:

• CANAL
• CANAL (from Lat. canalis, " channel " and " kennel " being doublets of the word)

canal; but the greater portion of the central plain, comprising about two-thirds of the district area, is entirely dependent upon the uncertain rainfall .

The See also:

• CLIMATE

climate, though severe in point of See also:

• HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat, is generally healthy; the rainfall averages annually about 20 in . The See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population in 1901 was 630,672, showing an increase of 6.8% in the See also:

• DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

decade . The See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal crops are millets, See also:

• WHEAT
• WHEAT (Triticum)

wheat, See also:

• BARLEY (Hordeum sativum)

barley, pulses, cotton and See also:

• SUGAR

sugar-See also:

• CANE

cane . The district is traversed by the See also:

• LINE

line of the Southern Punjab railway from Delhi to See also:

• JIND

Jind, and also touched by the See also:

• REWARI

Rewari-Ferozepore See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the See also:

• RAJPUTANA

Rajputana railway . It is peculiarly exposed to drought, suffering in the See also:

• FAMINE (Lat. fames, hunger)

famine of 1896-97, and yet more severely in 1899-1900, when the highest number of persons relieved was 33,632 in See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1900 . Rohtak was formerly included within the region known as See also:

• HARIANA

Hariana . The district, with the other possessions of Sindhia See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west of the Jumna, passed to the British in 1803 . Until 1832 Rohtak was under the See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration of a See also:

• POLITICAL

political See also:

• AGENT (from Lat. agere, to act)

agent, See also:

• RESIDENT

resident at Delhi, but in that See also:

• YEAR

year it was brought under the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general regulations and annexed to the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North-Western Provinces . The outbreak of the See also:

• MUTINY
• MUTINY (from an old verb " mutine," O. Fr. mutin, meutin, a sedition; cf. mod. Fr. emeute; the original is the Late Lat. mota, commotion, from movere, to move)

Mutiny in 1857 led to its See also:

• ABANDONMENT (Fr. abandonnement, from abandonner, to abandon, relinquish; abandonner was originally equivalent to mettred banddn, to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another, bandon being from Low Latin bandum, bannum, order, decree, " ban ")

abandonment, when the mutineers attacked and plundered Rohtak, destroying every See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record of administration . It was not until after the fall of Delhi that the authority of the British See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government was permanently restored . Rohtak was then transferred to the Punjab .