AMB (Princely State) 

 
AREA:  699 km PRIVY PURSE:  ACCESSION:  1969 
STATE:  Pakistan (Frontier State)  DYNASTY:  Tanoli Hindwal  RELIGION:  Muslim 
  POPULATION:  31,622 (1901)  
     
PRESENT RULER:  Nawab SALAHUDDIN KHAN, Nawab of Amb (1973/-)
 
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  Predecessor state was called Tanawal, later renamed Amb. Rulers were.... 
  • NAWAB KHAN -/1818, Chief of the Hindwal sept of the Tanawali tribe, defeated the Durranis, but met his death at the hands of Sardar Azim Khan in 1818, married and had issue. He died 1818.
    • PAINDA KHAN (qv)
    • Madad Khan, received from his brother, Phulera of 88 sq. kms., a small principality to rule, which was later duly recognized as a Princely State in gazette notifications in 1919 and 1921, married and had issue.
      • SON, married and had issue.
        • SON, married and had issue.
          • Ata Muhammed Khan, Khan of Phulera. His descendants live in Mansehra quite destitute due to extensive litigation, and there appears to be no recognized head of this branch of the family. 
  • PAINDA KHAN 1818/1840, vigorously opposed the Sikhs, but lost all his territory to them, except for the tract around Amb, married and had issue. He died 1840.
    • JAHANDAD KHAN (qv)
  • JAHANDAD KHAN 1840/- , recovered part of the lost territiories with the help of the British Government and the Maharaja of Kashmir, married and had issue.
    • Nawab Bahadur Sir MUHAMMED AKRAM KHAN (qv)
  • Nawab Bahadur Sir MUHAMMED AKRAM KHAN bef 1868/1907, Nawab [cr.1868], Nawab Bahadur [cr.1868] (personal), at the same time he received a cash allowance of 500Rs per month, C.S.I. [cr.1871], K.C.S.I. [cr.1889], (#1) , he also enjoys a jagir of the annual value of 9,000Rs in the Haripur tahsil of Hazara District. 
  • Nawab Sir KHAN-i-ZAMAN KHAN 1907/1936, K.C.I.E. [cr.1921], died 26th February 1936.
  • Nawab MUHAMMED FARID KHAN 1936/1971, married and had issue. He died 1971.
  • Nawab SAEED KHAN 1971/1973, married and had issue. He died 1973.
    • Nawab SALAHUDDIN KHAN (qv)
    • HH Khonza Begum Ismat, married HH Mehtar MUHAMMED SAIF ul-MULK NASIR of Chitral, and has issue.
    • Nawabzada Jahangir Saeed Tanoli
  • Nawab SALAHUDDIN KHAN (see above)
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p.328