Kamboj
{{Short description|Caste in Punjab and Haryana}}
{{other uses|Kamboja (disambiguation){{!}}Kamboja}}
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| group = Kamboj
| image = Portrait of two unidentified men of the Kamboj (or Kamboh) tribe of Multan, ca.1862–72.png
| image_caption = Portrait of two unidentified men of the Kamboj (or Kamboh) tribe of Multan, ca.1862–72
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| langs = Punjabi • Dogri • Haryanvi • Hindi
| rels = Hinduism • Sikhism • Islam
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The Kamboj (Devanagari: कंबोज, Nastaliq: کمبوج, Gurumukhi: ਕੰਬੋਜ ALA-LC: {{transl|ur|ALA-LC|Kamboj}}), also Kamboh (Nastaliq: کمبوہ ALA-LC: {{transl|ur|ALA-LC|Kamboh}}), is a caste and agrarian community of India and Pakistan that originated from the central Punjab region.{{Cite book |last=Ali |first=Imran |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MgUABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA47 |title=The Punjab Under Imperialism, 1885-1947 |date=14 July 2014 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-5958-0 |language=en|page=47}}{{Cite book |last1=Singh |first1=K. S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qUZuAAAAMAAJ |title=Haryana |last2=Bhatia |first2=A. K. |last3=Sharma |first3=Madan Lal |date=1994 |publisher=Anthropological Survey of India |isbn=978-81-7304-091-7 |pages=284}}
Muslim Kamboj are known as Kamboh; they were particularly influential in the administration and the military of the Mughal Empire from the times of Akbar onward. Some famous personalities include Shahbaz Khan Kamboh and Shaikh Gadai Kamboh.{{cite journal |last1=Umar |first1=Mohammad |last2=Umar |first2=Mohammed |title=The Kambohs: A Prominent Community of Indian Muslims in the Sixteenth Century (summary) |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=1992 |volume=53 |pages=328–330 |jstor=44142802 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44142802 |issn=2249-1937 |access-date=14 January 2024 |archive-date=1 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901195449/https://www.jstor.org/stable/44142802 |url-status=live }}
Demographics
= Religion =
As per the 1931 census of British Punjab, most Kambojs followed Sikhism (42.4%) and Islam (41.5%), with a considerable minority following Hinduism (16.1%).{{cite report |title=Census of India 1931. Vol. 17, Punjab. Pt. 2, Tables.: Census Reports - 1931 |date=1933 |pages=291–292 |jstor=saoa.crl.25793242 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.25793242 |access-date=14 January 2024 |archive-date=31 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031110212/https://www.jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.25793242 |url-status=live }}
Muslim members of the community are called as Kamboh. The Hindu Kambojs and the Sikh Kambojs are found in the Punjab, Haryana and Jammu regions in India, while most of the Muslim Kambohs are found in the province of Punjab in Pakistan.{{cite book |last1=Singh |first1=Pashaura |last2=Fenech |first2=Louis E. |title=The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies |date=27 March 2014 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-100411-7 |page=84 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7YwNAwAAQBAJ&dq=Kamboj++caste&pg=PA84}}
= Numbers =
As per the 2017 Pakistani census, Kamboh made around 5% of Lahore's population, which back then amounted to some 550,000 individuals out of a total population of 11 million.{{Cite web |title=District Profile |url=https://lahore.punjab.gov.pk/district_profile |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231127195943/https://lahore.punjab.gov.pk/district_profile |archive-date=27 November 2023 |website=District Lahore - Government of Punjab}}
See also
References
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External links
{{Wiktionary|Kamboj}}
- [https://www.kambojsociety.com/who-are-kamboj.html Kamboj Society - Who are these Kamboj people?]
Category:Social groups of Uttar Pradesh
Category:Social groups of Haryana
Category:Social groups of Jammu and Kashmir