AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY HISTORY OF NORTH INDIA: AN ACCOUNT OF THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ROHILLA CHIEFS IN JANBHASHA BY RUSTAM ALI BIJNORI

The new source of information not only provides interesting information on the rise and fall of the Rohila chiefs in Katehar region (Rohikhand) but also is the first one ever written in Janbhasha (prose). This work being the first history of the Rohila chiefs of Katehar not only serves as corrective to Persian histories but also contains much of importance for those who are interested in the history of the progress of the regional dialect called Hindwi out of which evolved the modern Urdu and Hindi languages.