Talk:Rohilla

Title of this page
There is no such article yet, but the title Yousufzai and Rohilla or Yousufzai and Rohillas really belongs to the Afghan tribe of that name, who established a state in Southern Andhra Pradesh (Hyderabad) and in Northern Uttar Pradesh (Rohilkhand) between 1623 & 1949, and after whom this ship is named. Perhaps this page could be moved to S.S. Rohilla ? Sikandarji 17:27, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Map of India removed
Yousufzai and Rohillas were Pashtun tribes from regions in Afghanistan and Pakistan and settled and created empire in Hyderabad State Andhra Pradesh and Rohilkhand region of modern Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, India. The map should include all mentioned regions.

Siddiqui 15:01, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Yousafzai or Bangash?
I hate to be a nitpicker, but many history books say that the Yousufzai and Rohillas were largely of the Afghanistan tribes.

Two words.Durrand line — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.181.109.243 (talk) 20:33, 24 May 2014 (UTC)


 * @173.181.109.243 Many people in India seem to forget that NWFP/KPK province was part of Afghanistan until the early 20th century when an agreement on the Durand Line as a border between British India and Afghanistan.
 * An example of such confusion exists among the family of the Bombay film acting family of Feroze Khan. Feroze Khan insisted that his fathe Saadat Khan Tanoli was from Ghazni in Afghanistan not knowing that Ghazni settlers in Tanawal state in Hazara, Pakistan admit to being from the the Aghanistan region but are known as Tanolis due to their current location and were never known by that name in contemporary Afghanistan - maybe being in India they don't want a Pakistani connection. Regardless of the confusion the fact remains that Tanolis are from Tanawal and they do not figure among Afghanistan's tribal list all because the Tanoli title is from their current residence since the 13th century. 2A02:C7D:468C:CC00:D814:AE6B:2E04:4933 (talk) 08:40, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Yousufzai and Rohilla still in India
This article seems to indicate the Yousufzai and Rohilla community emigrated to Pakistan, after independence. Most Yousufzai and Rohillas have remained in India. Secondly, by early 19th Century, most had switched to Urdu. In customs, they were and are similar to other north Indian Muslim communities.

--WALTHAM2 (talk) 12:44, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for updating the page
Hi all,

I'm a Rohillah (we place an "h" at the end of ours) whose grandparents migrated from UP to Pakistan. My grandfather always told me we were Yousafzai Omerkhail Pashtuns. I still have family in UP around the Barielly area in a village called Daleel Ganj just outside of Pilibhit. I had a chance to visit there and see the mosque of Hafiz Rehmat Khan. Just being in the same area of my ancestors was a great experience for me. I'm glad to see that Wikipedia has an article on my ancestors and wanted to thank the person that wrote it.

Thanks again,

R Rohillah. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rehan R (talk • contribs) 22:25, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

In Pakistan
"They are highly discriminated in Pakistan and finally formed their own political association joining MQM in huge numbers."

This statement seems to be discriminatory. Showing that 'Yousufzai and Rohillas' are highly discriminated in Pakistan. Would someone furnish a reference? As far as Wiki says 'Gen. Akhtar Abdur Rehman' and 'Sahabzada Yaqoob' were Rohillas. It is highly unlikely that in a society what discriminates against a particular group, people of belonging to that group are able to clinch the top positions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.28.49.56 (talk) 17:22, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

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Hindu or Muslim?
There are both Muslim and Hindu Rohillas, both with the historical center in Rohilkhand. That may surprize some. However there are several communities with roots in NW of the subcontinent/Afghanistan that are both Muslim and Hindu. Examples include Jat, Rajput, Gujar, Janjua, Manhas, Meo, Kamboj, Arain etc. and others. A few have preserved traces of a dual identity. Malaiya (talk) 00:50, 15 March 2020 (UTC).


 * This article is about Rohilla Pathans. The assertion that the so-called "Rajput Rohilas/Rohillas" are a sub-division of the Pashtun Rohillas requires a reliable source. A news report about a Rajput Rohilla caste association celebration should not be used to support this assertion. There are several social/ethnic groups with same/similar names: for example, it doesn't make sense to include information about Kota Brahmins or Kota people (Gabon) in the article Kota people (India), unless a reliable source explicitly asserts some kind of relationship between them. utcursch &#124; talk 17:49, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
 * @Malaiya These non-Pakhtun ethnicities cannot be called Pathan as the definition of Afghan/Pashtun is that the communities belong to Pakhtun tribal system not to Hindu castes as mentioned above. A tribe is not a Jati but a Khel or Zai. living among a people does not make a community part of the larger community. Pashtuns are a non-Indic people given their language is rooted in South Ossetian and ethnicity in White Hun. They are also related to Iranic cultural norms as are their neighbours the Baloch - as for other influences they have had Jewish, Zoroastrian, Grey Woolf Cultists before the advent of Islam led to mass conversions to the Mohammadan creed.
 * My family have been settled among the British for over sixty years and despite being very fair with blue and green eyes we are 100% Pashtun and shun any attempts to be classified as White British.im a proud Pakhtun born in Pakhtunkhwa, as are my grandchildren now in universities. This is to assert that people from minority communities living among a larger group cannot be considered part of the majority just because of their location and sharing of some aspects of culture of the majority.
 * I also know many Sikh families in UK who were resident in Kabul and Jalalabad including those in Pak Tribal regions, all speaking Pashto outside but communicating in a form of Hindki/Hindko at home to varying degrees. also during the British Raj period many native families spoke English but the British did not not accept them as part of them, rejecting them as they did the Anglo-Indians who were deliberately created as a buffer class between the natives and the rulers, originally in the east of India. 2A02:C7D:468C:CC00:D814:AE6B:2E04:4933 (talk) 08:09, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Rohila are rajput Priyanshurohilarajput112 (talk) 18:46, 12 March 2022 (UTC)