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| == Kamboj Sikh ==
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| '''Kamboj''' (Punjabi: ਕਮ੍ਬੋਜ, Hindi: कम्बोज, Urdu: کمبوہ ) is frequently used as surname or last name by many Kambojs, currently living in India. The Kambojs/Kambohs are the modern reprentatives 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 Kambojs, currently living in India. Their Muslim counter-parts living in Pakistan mostly use Kamboh instead. The Kambojs/Kambohs are the modern reprentatives of ancient Kambojas, a well known Kshatriya tribe of Indo-Aryans, stated to have had both Indian as well as Iranian affinities [1].
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| Traditions
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| Hindu Kambohs claim to be related to the Rajputs. They came in the period of Mahabharat to the regions where they live now.[5]
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| Agriculturists
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| Numerous foreign and Indian writers have described the modern Kambojs/Kambohs as one of the finest class of agriculturists of India.[6]
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| The majority of Krishi Pandit awards in Rajasthan/India have been won by the Kamboj agriculturists.[7] Col Lal Singh Kamboj, a landlord from Uttar Pradesh, was the first Indian farmer to win the Padma Shri award for progressive farming in 1968.
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| Kamboh Sikhs. — The Kambohs, who number about 150,000, are found mostly in the districts of Karnal,
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| Umballa, Jullunder, Montgomery, Lahore and Amritsar. They are agriculturists by profession, and have a very
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| high reputation as such.
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| About twenty-three per cent, of them are Sikhs by religion, thirty-seven per cent, are Mahomedans, and forty per cent,
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| are Hindus. Kamboh Sikhs are very numerous in Kapurthala, and they make
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| very good soldiers, being of fine physique, and plucky.
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