Great Kamboj

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Kamboj people are an ethnic community of the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. The Kamboj people are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Primarily of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh faiths, they now live mostly in the Indian States of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh and the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh.

Kamboj is frequently used as caste name or surname or last name in lieu of the sub-caste उपनाम or the gotra name गोत्र by many Kamboj people currently living in India. Their Muslim counter-parts living in Pakistan mostly use last name Kamboh instead of the gotra name. A good many Muslim Kamboh is also found in the Doab region of Uttar Pradesh, India, especially in the town of Marehra, and call themselves Zuberis.

The Kamboj are also found in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal and Ganganagar in Rajasthan. A minuscule agrarian community called Kambhoj is living in Maharashtra which probably has descended from those Kambojas who had settled in South-West India around Christian era.

Kamboj is frequently used as surname or last name by many Kamboj's, currently living in India. Their Muslim counter-parts living in Pakistan mostly use Kamboh instead. The Kambojs/Kambohs are the modern representatives of ancient Kambojas, a well known Kshatriya tribe of Indo-Aryans, stated to have had both Indian as well as Iranian affinities is frequently used as surname or last name by many Kamboj's, currently living in India. Their Muslim counter-parts living in Pakistan mostly use Kamboh instead.

The meaning of Kamboj Word:

The Sanskrit name Kamboja कम्बोज is also sometimes found written as Kambuja 'कम्बुज' as in Vedic texts like Paraskara Grhya Sutra (2.1.23). Kambojas is the plural form of Kamboja. The Kamboj word is derived from the Sanskrit word 'कम्बुज' (KAMBUJ). The meaning of Kambuj is 'क्षत्रिय की संतान' (Descendents of Kshatriya Tribe). In Hindi, Kamboj can be written in two ways: कम्बोज and काम्बोज and meaning of both the words are different. The meaning of कम्बोज (Kamboj) is children of Kamboj Kshatriya Tribe (कम्बोज क्षत्रिय की संतान) and काम्बोज (Kamboj) word refers to the country having to name Kamboj i.e. KAMBOJ COUNTRY (कम्बोज जनपद). Therefore the meaning of Kamboj word can be used as given below:

* Name of Kamboj Kshatriya Tribe

* Name of Kamboj Country

* Name of Kamboj Kshatriya King

* Descendents or children of Kamboj Kshatriya Tribe

* Born or Native of Kamboj Country