The word Cholistan is derivative from the Turkish word chol, which means "desert". Cholistan thus means Land of the Desert and locally know as Rohi sprawls thirty kilometers from Bahawalpur and covers an area of 26,300 square kilometres It link up with the Thar Desert, extending over to Sindh and into India. The history of Cholistan starts from the history of Indus Valley civilization, which prospered from about 2500 BC to 1500 BC around the Indus River.a