Kamboj
The Kamboj (Punjabi: ਕੰਬੋਜ Kamboj, Hindi: कंबोज Kamboj), also Kamboh (Urdu: کمبوہ ALA-LC: Kamboh), is a caste and cultivating community of the larger Punjab region of Pakistan and India, spanning a region from the Sutlej Valley to the north, the Multan in the west and the Karnal area of Yamuna valley in the east.[1] By religion, the Hindu, the Sikh are mostly found in the east, that is the Punjab and Haryana states in India, while most of the Muslim Kamboj are found in the west in the province of Punjab in Pakistan.[1][2]
_tribe_of_Multan%252C_ca.1862%E2%80%9372.png.webp) Portrait of two unidentified men of the Kamboj (or Kamboh) tribe of Multan, ca.1862–72 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| India • Pakistan | |
| Languages | |
| Punjabi • Dogri • Haryanvi • Hindi-Urdu | |
| Religion | |
| Hinduism • Islam • Sikhism |
See also
- Kambojas
- Khmer people
- Shahbaz Khan Kamboh
- Nawab Khair Andesh Khan
- Muhammad Saleh Kamboh Lahori
- Nawab Khair Andesh Khan Sani
- Waqar-ul-Mulk
References
- A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province: A.-K. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. 1997. pp. 442–445. ISBN 978-81-85297-69-9.
- Singh, Pashaura; Fenech, Louis E. (27 March 2014). The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies. OUP Oxford. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-19-100411-7.
External links
Look up Kamboj in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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