Amb State

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Amb State
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Coordinates: 34.100581°N 72.726003°E
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Present Day Details
Place Name:
State/Province: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
Country: Pakistan
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Amb State (approx 532 sq kms)attached to Hazara district of British India, was a small frontier state, that was originally known as Mulq i Tanawal (Land/Country of Tanawal); and was largely inhabited by the non-Pashtun/Pathan, 'Tanwali' or 'Tanoli' tribe. A part of this state was also given over to the smaller state (or Jagir estate) of Phulra (approx 82 sq kms).

History and origins

Capital

  • Darband (submerged now)
  • Shergarh (summer)

Present Day

Much of the State's area was submerged by the reservoir of the Tarbela Dam (1974), the world's largest earth filled dam. However, those parts of Shergarh, 'new' Darband, Lassan and Phulra that survived, are now part of Oghi tehsil/subdivision of Mansehra district, of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (ex North-West Frontier Province) of Pakistan, since 2010.

The Nawabzada Salahuddin Saeed Khan, son of the last Nawab, and titular head of the Tanoli tribe, still spends part of the year at his surviving residence at Shergarh Fort.

External Links

Wikipedia - Amb Princely State

Wikipedia - Tanoli tribe

Official page of the former ruling family of Amb state