Kingdom of Amb State (princely state)

 Amb State

History of the Tanoli Tribe

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Kingdom of Amb
Princely state of Pakistan
1507–28 July 1969
Flag
Amb state in 1947
Capital	Darband (now submerged under Tarbela Dam) Shergarh (summer residence)
Area
•	24,985 km2 (9,647 sq mi)
History
Government
• Type	Monarchy
• Motto	""این سیستم خداست"" This system of God بادشاہت اللہ کی*نظام خدا دا*
Historical era	since 1507-1969
• Established	1507
• Pakhli Sultanate (Karluks Turks)	1507
• Tanoli	1647
• Submitted to Durrani Rule	1755
• Submitted to Sikh Rule	1830
• Submitted to British Rule	1840
• Disestablished	28 July 1969
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Today part of	Pakistan  · Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Amb was a princely state of the former British Indian Empire. Amb State was ruled by the chiefs of the Hindwal clan of the Tanoli tribe that inhabits the Trans Indus Tanawal region of the present day Hazara division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Though the princely state came into being when the title of Nawab was conferred on Nawab Muhammad Akram Khan Tanoli in 1858, the chieftainship of Amb has its roots in the mid seventeenth century when the ancestors of the Nawabs of Amb restored their authority in their ancestral region of Tanawal after successfully driving out the powerful Mughal vassals of Pakhli Sarkar. In the mid eighteenth century, the Tanoli secured political concessions and the right to taxation on a section of the lucrative Kabul-Kashmir trade route in return for military service with the Afghan King Ahmad Shah Abdali during his invasions of India. In the early half of the nineteenth century, the ancestor of the Nawabs of Amb Painda Khan Tanoli put up a fierce resistance to the authority of Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s Lahore Durbar. Various primary historical sources from Sohan Lal Suri’s Umdat ut Tawarikh to Mahtab Singh’s Tawarikh e Hazara and the travel accounts of Alexander Burnes and Edward Barry Conolly show how Upper Tanawal remained one of the few regions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where Sikh rule could not be established. In 1858, the British Empire recognized Amb as a semi independent principality with its own army and postal service that was ruled according to tribal customs and Islamic law. In 1913, Nawab Muhammad Khan e Zaman Khan Tanoli of Amb State was the biggest donor to Islamia College Peshawar after the Nizam of Hyderabad Deccan. In 1947, Amb State acceded to Pakistan during the reign of Nawab Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli who was a close friend of Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. In October 1947, 500 Tanoli infantrymen from Amb State Forces participated in Kashmir’s war of liberation with their own artillery and transport, alongside other tribesmen from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

With a population of 50,000 persons and territory of 600 square kilometers in 1950, Amb State was the oldest among Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s four princely states, the others being Dir, Chitral and Swat. Amb State was merged into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in 1969. In the 1970s, Amb State’s capitals at Amb and Darband were completely submerged by the damming of the Indus at Tarbela. The present Nawab of Amb, Nawabzada Salahuddin Saeed, maintains his residence at the Shergarh Haveli in Upper Tanawal.

Modern Rulers

Haibat Khan Tanoli (1780 – 1800)

Hashim Ali Khan Tanoli (1800 – 1806)

Nawab Khan Tanoli (1806 – 1817)

Painda Khan Tanoli (1817 – 1844)

Jahandad Khan Tanoli (1844 – 1858)

Nawab Muhammad Akram Khan Tanoli (1858 – 1906)

Nawab Khan e Zaman Khan Tanoli (1906 – 1936)

Nawab Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli (1936 – 1971)

Nawab Muhammad Saeed Khan Tanoli (1971 – 1973)

Nawabzada Salahuddin Saeed (1973 – present)

List of Nawabs of Amb[Editor Kashan Nawaz Tanoli]

Image	Titular Name	Personal Name	Date of birth	Nawab From	Nawab Until	Date of death
	Muhammad Anwar Khan Tanoli انور خان تنولی	Anwar Khan Tanoli	1688	1710	1730	1730
	Muhammad Bahadur Khan Tanoli بہادر خان	Bahadur Khan Tanoli	23 June 1712	1730-1740	8 August 1755	8 August 1755
	Sultan Zaburdust Khan Tanoli صوبہ خان تنولی	Sultan Zaburdust Khan Tanoli	1 May 1736	8 August 1755	2 November 1783
	Mir Haibat Khan Tanoli ہیبت خان	Mir Haibat Khan Tanoli	6 April 1740	1783	12 December 1798
	Mir Nawab Khan Tanoli نواب خان	Mir Nawab Khan Tanoli	12 April 1792	1800-1810	13 October 1818
	Mir Painda Khan Tanoli پائنداخان	Mir Painda Khan Tanoli	6 May 1805	1818	1819-1822 completely Rule ended and hence again conquered and started in 1823	12 September 1844
	Mir Jehandad Khan Tanoli جہانداد خان	Mir Jehandad Khan Tanoli	6 February 1820	1844	1868
	Muhammad Akram Khan Tanoli اکرم خان	Muhammad Akram Khan Tanoli	1859	1868	1907
	Khan-e-Zaman Khan Tanoli زمان خان	Muhammad Khan Zaman Khan Tanoli	6 November 1880	1907	12 September 1936
	Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli فرید خان	Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli	1 January 1904	1936	17 September 1947 (Alliance with Pakistan but continued rule)	28 July 1969 (Rule end due to fighting between the Descendants of Amb Pakistan Army occupied integration)

Right from Fourth Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia when he was the Governor of Mecca right from third Qatar Rulers somewhere or Left from Third Syed Abdul Jabbar Shah Prime Minister of Amb State Left from Second Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah Left from first Safiullah Khan Tanoli and Governor of Madina at Sethana Palace Darband in 1923.

➥Photos about  Kingdom Of Amb State:

Amb State Postal Stamp

Shergarh Haveli

نواب خان زمان خان تنولی اور دیگر وزراء امب اسٹیٹ کی تنولی فوج کے ہمراہ یادگار تصویر