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The Bomba, also spelled Bambas, are a Rajput tribe found in Pakistani-administered Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. In Azad Kashmir, they are primarily found in Muzaffarabad and Neelum districts, with a large number concentrated in and around the town of Ghori. In Jammu and Kashmir, they are found in the Poonch and Rajouri districts of Jammu division. Outside of Kashmir, they are also found in the Boi and Kaghan valleys of Mansehra District, and the city of Abbottabad, all located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The Bomba clan claim descent were from Arab tribes. Others state that they are of indigenous hill Rajput descent and inhabitants of the tracts of Karnah, Keran and Kupwara regions who converted to Islam from Hinduism. In the past Bombas ruled the Jhelum Valley and had a close alliance and kinship with the Khakha Rajputs who inhabited the same area. The success of this alliance earned them a warlike and refractory reputation, as they jointly fought the early Mughal rule of Akbar and later resisted the Sikhs. [1] The rajas of the Bomba clan ruled Karnah till the Sikh conquest of Kashmir. [1] The Karnah Bombas and their supporters, the Khakha chiefs of Jhelum Valley, were invaded in 1846. [1]
The Bombas style themselves as sultans.
Sultan Muzaffar Khan of thr Bomba clan established the city of Muzaffarabad in present-day Azad Kashmir. Sultan Sher Ahmed Khan, the last Bomba ruler, was defeated by the Dogra ruler Maharaja Ranbir Singh at Panzgam, Kupwara in present-day Indian-administered Kashmir in the early 19th century.
The Bomba [2] 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 three main families of Boi, Tarheri and Jabri Kalesh. The laso Kagha and Tarheri families are also important in this region. [3] [4]
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