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ROHTAK , a See also:town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Delhi See also:division of the See also:Punjab. The town, which is of See also:great antiquity, became the headquarters of a British district in 1824. Viewed from the sandhills to the See also: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 in the centre, a fort See also:standing out boldly to the See also:east, is striking and picturesque. It has a station on the See also:Southern Punjab
railway, 44 M. N.W. of Delhi. Pop. (1901) 20,323. It is an important See also:trade centre, with factories for ginning and pressing See also:cotton, and a speciality in See also:muslin turbans.
The district of Rohtak has an See also:area of 1797 sq. m. It is situated in the midst of the level tableland between the See also:Jumna and the See also:Sutlej, forming one unbroken See also:plain of hard See also:clay copiously interspersed with See also:light yellow See also:sand, and covered in its See also:wild See also:state by a See also:jungle of scrubby brushwood. The only natural See also:reservoir for its drainage is the Najafgarh jhil, a marshy See also:lake lying within the boundaries of Delhi. The Sahibi, a small stream from the See also:Ajmere hills, traverses a corner of the district, and the See also:northern portions are watered by the Rohtak and Butana branches of the Western Jumna See also: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, though severe in point of See also:heat, is generally healthy; the rainfall averages annually about 20 in.
The See also:population in 1901 was 630,672, showing an increase of 6.8% in the See also:decade. The See also:principal crops are millets, See also:wheat, See also:barley, pulses, cotton and See also:sugar-See also:cane. The district is traversed by the See also:line of the Southern Punjab railway from Delhi to See also:Jind, and also touched by the See also:Rewari-Ferozepore See also:branch of the See also:Rajputana railway. It is peculiarly exposed to drought, suffering in the See also: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 1900.
Rohtak was formerly included within the region known as See also:Hariana. The district, with the other possessions of Sindhia See also:west of the Jumna, passed to the British in 1803. Until 1832 Rohtak was under the See also:administration of a See also:political See also:agent, See also:resident at Delhi, but in that See also:year it was brought under the See also:general regulations and annexed to the See also:North-Western Provinces. The outbreak of the See also: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 of administration. It was not until after the fall of Delhi that the authority of the British See also:government was permanently restored. Rohtak was then transferred to the Punjab.
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