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| group = Kamboj<br />
| image = Portrait of two unidentified men of the Kamboj (or Kamboh) tribe of Multan, ca.1862–72.png<br />
| image_caption = Portrait of two unidentified men of the Kamboj (or Kamboh) tribe of Multan, ca.1862–72<br />
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| popplace = [[India]] • [[Pakistan]]<br />
| langs = [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] • [[Dogri language|Dogri]] • [[Haryanvi language|Haryanvi]] • [[Hindi]]<br />
| rels = [[Hinduism]] • [[Sikhism]] • [[Islam]] <br />
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The '''Kamboj''' ([[Devanagari]]: कम्बोज, [[Nastaliq]]: کمبوج, [[Gurumukhi]]: ਕੰਬੋਜ <small>[[ALA-LC]]:</small> {{Transliteration|ur|ALA-LC|''Kamboj''}}), also '''Kamboh''' ([[Nastaliq]]: کمبوہ <small>[[ALA-LC]]:</small> {{Transliteration|ur|ALA-LC|''Kamboh''}}), is a caste and agrarian community of [[India]] and [[Pakistan]].<ref>{{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 |page=47 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><br />
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== Demographics ==<br />
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=== Religion ===<br />
As per the 1931 census of [[Punjab Province (British India)|British Punjab]], most Kambojs followed [[Sikhism]] (42.4%) and [[Islam]] (41.5%), with a considerable minority following [[Hinduism]] (16.1%).<ref>{{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 }}</ref><br />
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The [[Hindu]] Kambojs and the [[Sikh]] Kambojs are found in the [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], [[Haryana]] and [[Jammu division|Jammu]] regions in India, while most of the [[Muslim]] Kambojs, known as Kambohs, are found in the province of [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]] in Pakistan.<ref>{{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}}</ref><br />
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The Muslim Kambohs were particularly influential in the administration and the military of the [[Mughal Empire]] from the times of [[Akbar]] onward. Some famous personalities include Mughal general [[Shahbaz Khan Kamboh]] and 16-century [[Sufism|Sufi]] saint [[Shaikh Gadai Kamboh]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Umar |first1=Mohammad |date=1992 |title=The Kambohs: A Prominent Community of Indian Muslims in the Sixteenth Century (summary) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44142802 |url-status=live |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |volume=53 |pages=328–330 |issn=2249-1937 |jstor=44142802 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901195449/https://www.jstor.org/stable/44142802 |archive-date=1 September 2024 |access-date=14 January 2024}}</ref><br />
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=== Numbers ===<br />
As per the [[2017 Pakistani census]], Kamboh made around 5% of [[Lahore District|Lahore]]'s population, which back then amounted to some 550,000 individuals out of a total population of 11 million.<ref>{{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, Pakistan|Government of Punjab]]}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Kambojas]]<br />
*[[Khmer people]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Punjabi tribes]]<br />
[[Category:Social groups of Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Social groups of Haryana]]<br />
[[Category:Social groups of Jammu and Kashmir]]<br />
[[Category:Social groups of Punjab, India]]<br />
[[Category:Social groups of Punjab, Pakistan]]<br />
[[Category: Muslim communities of Haryana]]<br />
[[Category: Muslim communities of Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category: Muslim communities of India]]</div>Anis