Bomba (tribe)

The Bomba , also spelled as Bambas, are a powerful tribe of Muzaffarabad District in Azad Kashmir Pakistan. They are also found in the Mansehra District of the North West Frontier Province (now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa) of Pakistan.[1] A few also live in Kupwara district of Kashmir.

History and origin

The Bombas/Bambas style themselves as 'Sultans', and some claim origins from the Quraysh Arab tribe, and say the name Bomba is a corruption of Bani-Hashim, and they are descendants of Ali, son in law of Muhammad.[2] However it is generally accepted that they are of indigenous hill Rajput origins.[3] In the past Bombas ruled the Jhelum valley and had a close alliance and kinship with the Khakha Rajput tribe who also inhabited the same area. The success of this alliance, earned them a warlike and refractory reputation, as jointly they fought the early Mughal rule of Akbar and later resisted the Sikhs.

Sultan Muzaffar Khan Bomba established the city of Muzaffarabad in present day Azad Kashmir.

Bombas of Hazara Division

The Bomba are found in smaller numbers in the Boi tract of the Mansehra District also in mansehra city of the Hazara Division of the North West Frontier Province/Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. They are represented by two main families, one of Boi and the other of Jabri Kahsh. The Boi family is an important one in this region.[4]

Bombas of Keran Kupwara

(Please dont add any names of non notable people without any existing Wikipedia articles) Karen is a village located in Jammu and Kashmir, India and on the Pakistan side in the Neelum Valley on the bank of the Neelum (Kishanganga) river. The village lies on the Indo-Pakistan border.Keran a beautiful Town of the State of Jammu & Kashmir was established/founded by Bomba tribe Head Raja in the tenth century.. Keran is blessed with natural resources. Many Bomba sardars from different region/location inched in to keran.The Keran block includes three villages: Keran, Mundiyan and Pathran. T

After Bomba invasion many other families have been invited to settle in the village.

After 1947 the partition of subcontinent led separation of many Bomba Families into two wings of Kashmir. Keran Kupwara is a location of Bamba Family at Indian Administered Kashmir.In 1990, the Indian army relocated the villagers due to the insurgency. In 1992, flood swept over the cultivated land and houses more than 30% of the total Town was cut down from the Map.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Imperial Gazetteer of India. Provincial Series: Kashmir and Jammu Adamant co, p9
  2. ↑ History Of The Chamar Dynasty : (From 6Th Century A.D. To 12Th Century A.D.) p. 232 by Raj Kumar
  3. ↑ See Gallway, HW, Hill Tribes of Kashmere and Huzara (1932); Maine, P, Neighboring Tribes and Peoples of the Pathan Borderland (1972) and Dr. Azizuddin Khan Bomba, Monograph, Bomba Azeem Rajput Qaum ke Pisran (Urdu:The Bombas, Descendants of the Great Rajput Race) (Muzaffarabad, Kashmir, 1987)
  4. ↑ Punjabi Musalmans by J M Wikely

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