Bomba Dynasty
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The Bomba Dynasty, also spelled as Bambas, are a powerful warlike tribe of Muzaffarabad in Azad Kashmir Pakistan.[1]
They are styled as Sultans. They claim origins from the Quraysh Arab tribe, and say the name Bomba is a corruption of Banu Hashim. The Bombas ruled the Jhelum valley and had a close alliance with Khakha Rajput tribe who also inhabited the same area.
The success of this alliance, earning themselves a warlike and refractory reputation. They fought the early Mughal rule of Akbar and later resisted the Sikhs with the same centuries old alliance.
Sultan Muzaffar Khan Bomba established the city of Muzaffarabad in current day Azad Kashmir. Sultan Sher Ahmed Khan Bomba was the last Bomba ruler, who was defeated by Dogra ruler Maharaja Rambir Singh at Panzgam, Kupwara in current day Indian Kashmir.
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- ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India. Provincial Series: Kashmir and Jammu Adamant co, p9
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