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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 21, p. 321.

ROKTAK TO W1V 321 i,o16 in-patients, while 2,894 operations were performed. The income was Rs: zo,ooo, almost entirely derived from Local and municipal funds. The number of successful. vaccinations in 1903-4 was 14,406, repre- senting 22.8 per 1,ooo of population. The towns of Rohtak and Beri have adopted the Vaccination Act. [D. C. J. Ibbetson, District Gazetteer (1883-4); H. C. Fanshawe Settlement Report (1880).] Rohtak Tahsil.-Tahsil of Rohtak District, Punjab, lying between 28° 38' and 2.9' 6' N. and 76' 13' and 76° 45' E., with an area of 592 square miles. The population in 19or was r97,727, compared with 182,649 in 1891. It contains five towns--ROHTAK (population, 20,323), the head-quarters, SERI (9,723), KALANAUR (7,640), KAHNAUR (5,024), and MAHAM (7,824)-and 102 villages, including SANCHI (5,126). The land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 amounted to 2•9 lakhs. The plain is broken by a chain of sandhills on the east and by scattered sandy eminences elsewhere,,and is partially irrigated by the Western Jumna. Canal. Trees are scarce, except round the villages and along the older canal-branches. Rohtak Town.-Head-quarters of the District and tahsil of the same name, Punjab, situated in 28' 54' N. and 76' 35' ,E., on the Southern Punjab Railway, 44 miles north-west of Delhi; distant by rail from Calcutta 1,ooo miles, from Bombay 1,oi6, and from Karachi 863. Population (1901), 20,323, including 10,404 Hindus and 9,916 Muhammadans. It is plausibly identified with the Rauhitaka or Rauhita of the Rajatarangini and of Albiruni ; but tradition avers that its ancient name was Rohtasgarh or I the fort of,Rohtas ' a Ponwar Raja, and points to the mound called the Khokra Kot as the site of the old town. It is also said that Muhammad of Ghor destroyed the town soon after it had been. rebuilt by Prithw- Raj in i i 6o; but it is not mentioned by the earlier Muhammadan historians.. A colony 'of Shaikhs from Yemen are said to have built a. fort; and the Afghans of Birahma, an ancient site close by, also settled in the town,' which became the capital of a fief of the Delhi kingdom. Kai Khusrti,:.the grandson and heir of Balban, was enticed from MultAn by Kaikubad and put to death here about 1286; and in 14io Khizr- Khan,: the Saiyid, besieged Idris Khan in Rohtak fort, and took it after. a six months' ,siege. After the decline. of the Mughal power Rohtak, situated on the border line between the Sikh and Maratha :powers,' passed. through many vicissitudes, falling into the hands of one chieftain .after another.' .: It became the head-quarters of Rohtak District in x824, and: was plundered in the Mutiny of 1857. The municipality was, created in 1867. The' income during the. ten years ending 1902`3 averaged Rs. 24,9oo, and the expenditure