Kamboj

Kamboj
Regions with significant populations
India • Pakistan
Languages
Punjabi • Dogri • Hindi • Urdu
Religion
Hinduism • Islam • Sikhism
Related ethnic groups
Muslim Kamboj

The Kamboj (Urdu: کمبوہ‬‎ ALA-LC: Kamboj, Punjabi: ਕੰਬੋ Kamboj), also Kamboj, is a community mainly in the Northern India and eastern Pakistan.

During Mughal rule

During the early years of Islam in India, one of the groups of this clan embraced Islam at the instance of Shaikh Bahauddin Zakariya Suhrawardi (of Multan) and his son Shaikh Sadruddin.

Some Kamboj, such as Shahbaz Khan Kamboh, occupied key military and civil positions during the Turkic and the Moghul reign in northern India.[1] The historian M. Athar Ali said that "The Sayyids and the Kambohs among the Indian Muslims were specially favoured for high military and civil positions during Moghul rule".[2]

Claims

The name of the tribe is said to be a corrupt form of Kai-amboh, a royal race of Persia from which they profess to be descended. They are Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims. The Hindu Kambohs profess to be related to Rajputs and to have come from Persia— through Southern Afghanistan.[3]

Numerous foreign and Indian writers have described the modern Sikh Kambojs as some of the best agriculturists of India.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ See: The composition of the Mughal nobility, The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 1993, p 70, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., Robert McHenry; See also: Concise Encyclopædia Britannica, Online.
  2. ↑ Ali, M. Athar (2001) [1966]. The Mughal Nobility Under Aurangzeb (Revised ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-19565-599-5.
  3. ↑ Encyclopedia of Sikh Religion & Culture, 1997, p 24, Gobind Singh Mansukhani, Romesh Chander Dogra.
  4. ↑ India and World War 1, 1978, p 218, DeWitt C. Ellinwood, S. D. Pradhan; The Transformation of Sikh Society, 1974, p 132, Ethne K. Marenco
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