Rohila War Monument

Address: 4,5,4A,4B, Binoy Badal Dinesh Bag E, Kolkata, West Bengal 700001, India

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Rohila war monument is a Historical landmark in Kolkata.It has been rated 8.8 out of 10 by 18 people.

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Kunal B. rated it 10/10 stars and wrote:
Rohilla War was fought between the Rohillas and the Nawab of Oudh, with the British backing the later... Rohillas are a branch of the Pashtun tribe of the Pakistan and Afghanistan border... Some of the Rohillas settled in the Oudah region and soon a conflict began between the Rohillas and the Nawab of Oudh, Shuja – ud – Daula...this resulted in Rohilla War... The Rohilla Memorial at the St. John's Church compound consists of a circular dome supported by 12 pillars... The memorial contains a plaque with the names of several British Military Officers, killed in the Rohilla War... This memorial is also maintained well...Do take out some time to read the names...if you are interested in historical stuffs...
Posted: 5 years ago

Gautam B. rated it 10/10 stars and wrote:
The 15-meter high memorial consists of a small hemispherical roof surmounted on twelve Doric pillars. A plaque fixed on the side of the memorial’s base 101 years after the war names the military officers killed in action.When the Rohillas refused to pay war damages to Shuja-ud-Daulah after he protected them from the Marathas who had embarked on a punitive campaign against the former, the Nawab assisted by the British East India Company’s army defeated the Rohillas in 1774 & annexed most of their kingdom. The British established a small “protected” Rohilla state at Rampur & let the Rohilla chief Faizullah Khan continue as its Nawab. After Faizullah Khan passed away in 1793, his ill-tempered sons began contending with each other for the throne. The Company was forced to intervene again & General Abercromby led the British forces in the Second Rohilla War. 25,000 Rohilla soldiers were defeated & executed; the British raised the memorial to their fallen that were relatively very small in number. The Memorial, like the entire St. John’s Church Complex falls under the aegis of the Archaeological Survey of India (A.S.I).
Posted: 5 years ago

vik t. rated it 10/10 stars and wrote:
Near bbd bagh
Posted: 1 year ago

Parikhit J. rated it 10/10 stars and wrote:
First Rohila War:- The First Rohilla War of 1773–1774 was a punitive campaign by Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh, against the Rohillas, Afghan highlanders settled in Rohilkhand, northern India. The Nawab was supported by troops of the British East India Company, in a successful campaign brought about by the Rohillas reneging on a debt to the Nawab. Second Rohila War:- The Second Rohilla War was a conflict between British India and the Rohillas of Rampur in 1794. The cenotaph at St. John's Churchyard, Kolkata, in memory of deceased persons of the East India Company at Second Rohilla War. The end of the First Rohilla War in 1774 saw Faizullah Khan installed as Nawab of Rampur with the support of the British East India Company. Faizullah Khan was a competent ruler who was succeeded by his son, Muhammad Ali Khan, on his death in 1793. Overbearing and bad-tempered, Muhammad Ali Khan was deposed by his younger brother, Ghulam Muhammad Khan Bahadur, and exiled to Dungarpur, where he was later shot in his sleep. Ghulam Muhammad proved to be little better than his predecessor, and the British sent an expedition under the command of General Sir Robert Abercromby to remove the usurper.[2][3] Ghulam Muhammad's army of approximately 25,000 Rohillas was defeated by the British force at Bhitaura, in Bareilly, on 24 October 1794, and Ghulam Muhammad was replaced as Nawab by his nephew, Ahmad Ali Khan Bahadur.
Posted: 4 years ago

Umang P. rated it 10/10 stars and wrote:
The Rohillas were originally from the mountainous regions of Afghanistan & were mostly descendants of the Yousufzai tribe of Pathans, but also included several smaller tribes & sub-tribes. The chief amongst these were the Yousufzai & the Barech tribes from Kandhar which contributed most of the Rohilla leadership. They came to India under the service of local Zamindars & nawabs who wished to settle personal scores with each other. Several thousand of them were also inducted in the Mughal army by Emperor Aurangzeb to subdue the incendiary Rajput population. They slowly took control of the provinces they were stationed in & carved out a large chunk of territory for themselves christened “Rohilkhand” (“Land of the Rohillas”, the districts of Bareilly, Rampur & the surrounding regions in modern-day Uttar Pradesh). As the Mughal Empire waned, the Rohillas declared their independence & soon became a power to contend with. They played a very important role in the Third Battle of Panipat (1761) by providing notable assistance to the Afghan Shah Abdali against the Maratha confederacy. However a series of campaigns against them by Marathas, Sikhs & Shuja-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Awadh, weakened their armies and depleted their resources. A final defeat was administered to them by the British in the Second Rohilla War (1793) following which the British raised the Rohilla War Memorial within the campus of St. John’s Church, Calcutta to commemorate their fallen soldiers.
Posted: 5 years ago

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