There is no other state in India that is shrouded with controversies like that Jammu & Kashmir. From its unison with the Union of India, and also from before it the state has been the center of war and violence which has intensified in they recent years to a great extent. It is situated in the northernmost part oh India within the valley surrounded by the Himalayan mountains. The state of Jammu and Kashmir shares a border with the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab to the south, Pakistani administered Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas to the west and the People’s Republic of China to the north and east.

The territory of Jammu and Kashmir, as has already been said, is a hot spot since it is the source of decade old disputes between India and Pakistan and is referred to by Pakistan as Indian-occupied Kashmir. However, the state is as old as the history itself. In the ancient period it was regarded as one of the major centres of Sanskrit scholars. According to Mahabharata evidence, there as the rule of the Kambojas over Kashmir during epic times and it was a Republican system of government under the Kamboj. The capital city of Kashmir (Kamboj) during epic times was Rajapura e.g. Karna-Rajapuram-gatva-Kambojah-nirjitastava.

Jammu and Kashmir is also home to several valleys such as the Kashmir Valley, Tawi Valley, Chenab Valley, Poonch Valley, Sind Valley and Lidder Valley. The main Kashmir valley is 100 km wide and 15,520.3 km² in area. The Himalayas divide the Kashmir valley from Ladakh while the Pir Panjal range, which encloses the Valley from the west and the south, separates it from the Great Plains of northern India. Along the northeastern flank of the Valley runs the main range of the Himalayas. This densely settled and beautiful valley has an average height of 1,850 meters above sea-level but the surrounding Pir Panjal range has an average elevation of 5,000 meters.

From the old days the state of Jammu & Kashmir has historically consisted of four political regions. While one of them is the Ladakh towards the east bordering China, the others include Jammu towards the south bordering India and Pakistan, Kashmir Valley towards the east bordering Pakistan and Baltistan areas towards the North bordering China and Pakistan. However, both of Baltistan and a part of Kashmir Valley are under Pakistan control. Again, the Aksai Chin, claimed by India to be a part of Ladakh, is under Chinese control. The rest of Jammu & Kashmir is under Indian control. Pakistan and Indian controlled parts are separated by Line of Control (LOC).
The political system in the state moves according to the core belief of the Constitution of India and thus has a multi-party democratic system of governance participated by several political parties. It should also be remembered that the Constitution of India grants Jammu and Kashmir special autonomous status as a temporary provision through Article 370 that has generated controversies in the rest of India from time to time.

The economy of Jammu and Kashmir is mostly dependent on farming, animal husbandry and tourism. Other than this the whole of Kashmir valley is known for its sericulture, cold water fisheries as well as agricultural produce like apples, pears and many temperate fruits as well as nuts. It should be noted that the wood from Kashmir is used to make high-quality cricket bats, popularly known as Kashmir Willow.

The state though possesses a Muslim majority population there is also the presence of large and vibrant communities of Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs. In Jammu, Hindus constitute 67% of the population and Muslims 27% and Sikhs 5%, whereas in Ladakh, Buddhists constitute about 51% of the population, the remaining being Muslims.

Udham Singh (December 26, 1899 – July 31, 1940), born Sher Singh and also known as Ram Mohammed Singh Azad, symbolizing the unification of the three major religions of India: Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism. Singh was a Sikh Punjabi Marxist and militant nationalist. Considered one of the best-known of the more extremist revolutionaries of the Indian freedom struggle, he is also sometimes referred to as Shaheed-i-Azam Sardar Udham Singh (the expression “Shaheed-i-Azam” means “king of martyrs”). Along with Bhagat Singh, Udham Singh is also believed to be one of the earliest Marxists/Bolsheviks in India. Whilst living in England in 1940, Singh shot dead Sir Michael O’Dwyer, who had been Governor of the Punjab during the Amritsar Massacre, when General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer’s ordered British troops to fire on unarmed Indian protesters in Punjab, mostly Sikhs.

Shaheed Udham Singh Kamboj was one of the great patriots of India, with a burning desire to see his motherland free from the clutches of British colonialism and imperialism. Udham Singh Kamboj was a son of Tehal Singh and born on 26th December, 1899 at Sunam, Sangrur District, Punjab. He belonged to Kamboj family of Jammu gotra (sub-caste) and by his historic martyrdom upheld the valiant Kshatriya tradition of the Kambojas, a tradition which they have always kept up since their glorious Vedic Aryan days. Udham Singh was known at various stages in his relatively short life by the following names: Sher Singh, Udham Singh, Udhan Singh, Ude Singh, Uday Singh, Frank Brazil and Ram Mohammed Singh Azaad. Tehal Singh’s name before taking amrit paan was Chuhar Singh. Tehal Singh was at that time working as a watchman on a railway crossing in the neighbouring village of Upall. He died in 1907.

As Udham Singh’s parents died at very early age of seven, he became orphan and was got admitted along with his elder brother Sadhu Singh in Centre Khalsa Orphanage Pultighar, Amritsar on October 24, 1907 with the help of Bhai Kishan Singh Rogi.

As both brothers were administered the Sikh initiatory rites at the Orphanage, they received new names, Sher Singh becoming Udham Singh and Mukta Singh becoming Sadhu Singh. Sadhu Singh did not live long and expired in the year of 1917 which caused a great shock to Udham Singh. He got his educational training in various arts and crafts there and started up a painter shop with the sign board of Ram Muhammad Singh Azaad, which shows that he was a great son of Mother India and believe in secularism above any caste and religion. 

Udham Singh left the Orphanage after passing the matriculation examination in 1918. He was present in the Jallianwala Bagh on the fateful Baisakhi day, 13 April 1919, when a peaceful assembly of people was fired upon by General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, killing over one thousand and three hundred people. The event which Udham Singh used to recall with anger and sorrow, turned him to the path of revolution. Soon after, he left India and went to the United States of America. He felt thrilled to learn about the militant activities of the Babar Akalis in the early 1920′s, and returned home. He had secretly brought with him some revolvers and was arrested by the police in Amritsar, and sentenced to four years imprisonment under the Arms Act in 1928. On release in 1932, he returned to his native Sunam, but harassed by the local police, he once again returned to Amritsar and opened a shop as a signboard painter, assuming the name of Ram Muhammad Singh Azaad. This name, which he was to use later in England, was adopted to emphasize the unity of all the religious communities in India in their struggle for political- freedom.

Udham Singh was deeply influenced by the activities of Bhagat Singh and his revolutionary group. In 1935, when he was on a visit to Kashmlr, he was found carrying Bhagat Singh’s portrait. He invariably referred to him as his guru. He loved to sing political songs, and was very fond of Ram Prasad Bismal, who was the leading poet of the revolutionaries. After staying for some months in Kashmlr, Udham Singh left India. He wandered about the continent for some time, and reached England by the mid-thirties. He was on the lookout for an opportunity to avenge the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy. 

The long-waited moment at last came on 13 March 1940. On that day, at 4.30 p.m. in the Caxton Hall, London, where a meeting of the East India Association was being held in conjunction with the Royal Central Asian Society, Udham Singh fired five to six shots from his pistol at Sir Michael O’Dwyer, who was governor of the Punjab when the Amritsar massacre had taken place. O’Dwyer was hit twice and fell to the ground dead and Lord Zetland, the Secretary of State for India, who was presiding over the meeting was injured. Udham Singh was overpowered with a smoking revolver. He in fact made no attempt to escape and continued saying that he had done his duty by his country.

On 1 April 1940, Udham Singh was formally charged with the murder of Sir Michael O’Dwyer. On 4 June 1940, he was committed to trial, at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, before Justice Atkinson, who sentenced him to death. An appeal was filed on his behalf which was dismissed on 15 July 1940. On 31 July 1940, Udham Sin*gh was hanged in Pentonville Prison in London.

Udham Singh was essentially a man of action and save his statement before the judge at his trial, there was no writing from his pen available to historians. Recently, letters written by him to Shiv Singh Jauhal during his days in prison after the shooting of Sir Michael O’Dwyer have been discovered and published. These letters show him as a man of great courage, with a sense of humour. He called himself a guest of His Majesty King George, and he looked upon death as a bride he was going to wed. By remaining cheerful to the last and going joyfully to the gallows, he followed the example of Bhagat Singh who had been his beau ideal. During the trial, Udham Singh had made a request that his ashes be sent back to his country, but this was not allowed. In 1975, however, the Government of India, at the instance of the Punjab Government, finally succeeded in bringing his ashes home. Lakhs of people gathered on the occasion to pay homage to his memory.

Being orphaned at the age of three, he was brought up in the Sikh orphanage attached to Khalsa College, Amritsar. He was issued with a passport on 20 March 1933 in Lahore in the name of Udham Singh. In a Metropolitan Police report, file MEPO 3/1743, dated 16 March 1940 (3 days after Udham Singh had been charged with the murder of Sir Michael O’Dwyer), we find information concerning his life, which reveals him to be a highly active, well-travelled, politically motivated, secular-minded young man with some great purpose in his life, a supporter of Bolshevism and driven by an ardent hatred of British rule in India. This is how the report runs:

Shaheed Udham Singh Kamboj served in the Army in Basra for a year and a half and in British East Africa for two years. He returned thereafter to India for a few months and then proceeded to London in the company of one PRITAM SINGH. The two sailed for the United States via Mexico. He worked for two years in California and for some months in Detroit and Chicago, whence he moved to East New York where he lived for five years. Thereafter he shipped for voyages in various vessels of the US Shipping Line according to his own account as a Porto Rican, because no Indians were allowed to be employed on US vessels. (He is known to have held a seaman’s certificate in the name of FRANK BRAZIL of Porto Rico). From New York he made a trip to Europe, landing in France, and thereafter visiting Belgium, Germany and going as far as Vilna in Lithuania, returning via Hungary, Poland, Switzerland, Italy and France, embarking there for America. After another few months in the USA, he took employment on vessels plying to most of the Mediterranean ports and thereafter secured employment on the S.S. Jalapa as a carpenter. He arrived in this vessel at Karachi in July, 1927, and deserted from her in Calcutta.

While in America he appears to have come under the influence of Ghadr Party [Party of Revolt] and to have been affected by its teaching. He used to read seditious literature published by this party. On 27 July 1927 he was fined at Karachi for having in his possession a large number of obscene postcards.

On 30 August 1927 he was arrested at Amritsar as it was suspected that he was in possession of unlicensed Arms. Two revolvers, one pistol, a quantity of ammunition and copies of the prohibited paper, Ghadr-i-Gunj [Voice of Revolt], were recovered from him. He was prosecuted under section 20 of the Arms Act and was sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment. He stated that he had intended to murder Europeans who were ruling over Indians and that he fully sympathised with the Bolsheviks, as their object was to liberate India from foreign control. He was released from gaol on 23 October 1931.

He visited his village for a short time in 1933 and then proceeded to London where in 1934 he was known to be living at 9 Alder Street, Commercial Road.

On 5 July 1934, as Udham Singh, he applied in London for endorsements to his passport no. 52753, issued in Lahore: he gave his address as 4, Best Lane, Canterbury, Kent, and said he had a business as a sports outfitter in India, but that he had not worked since his arrival some nine months previously. (There is, however, evidence to show that he had been pursuing the calling of a peddler). He announced that he wished to travel by motor-cycle via Germany, Belgium and Poland to Russia, across Russia to Odessa, where he would take ship for Constantinople en route for India. This was considered rather strange, in view of the fact he had recently broken his arm, but as he had not at that time been identified as an Indian of extremist views no objections could be raised.

On 12 May 1936, he applied in London for endorsements for Holland, Germany, Poland, Austria, Hungary and Italy, giving the address 4, Duke Street, Spitalfields, E. The application was granted.

On 16 May 1936 he applied in Berlin for further endorsements including the Eastern European countries and the USSR. In view of the fact that he had not asked for these at the time of his application in London four days earlier, he was informed that his case would have to be referred to London, where upon he withdrew his application.

On 25 June 1936 he was reported as arriving in London from Leningrad, and in the following November it was reported that he was living with a white woman in the West End of London and was working at intervals on crowd scenes at film studios. On several occasions he is reported to have expressed extreme views and he is known to have boasted that he had smuggled arms into India.

In August, 1938, UDHAM SINGH was charged in London with demanding money with menaces. The Jury disagreed at the first trial and he was acquitted at the second trial.

He has not come under notice at meetings organised by Indian extremist movements in London.

On National Registration day he registered in the name of AZAD Singh, under Serial No. EACK/305/7, giving his occupation as carpenter, and stating that he was born on 23 October 1905. His address was given as: 581 Wimborne Road, Bournemouth.

A further record of antecedents was supplied by the prisoner to Detective Sergeant Lisney and this is also attached.

It appears his last employment terminated on 7th November, 1939, since when he has been receiving 17/-per week unemployment benefit in the name of SINGH AZAD.

Sudakshina Kamboja is the third king of the Kambojas referred to in the Mahabharata. And is also the most referenced of all the Kamboja kings in the whole Mahabharata and most illustrious warrior of the Kambojas of Epic Age.

Kamboj traditions and Sudakshina

According to the traditions of the Kamboj community passed on to it from its ancestors, a certain king Sodakhsh (Sudakshina) is believed to have descended from the line of god Chander Burman of remote Ancient antiquity|antiquity.

It is apparent that the Chander Burman of Kamboj traditions is same as the great Asura prince Chandravarma Kamboja who finds reference in the Adiparava section of Mahabhara.

Physical Characteristics of Sudakshina

Physically, Sudakshina Kamboj is described as very tall, gaura- varna and extremely handsome (sudarshaniya) young prince. He is stated to be very fierce, brave, intelligent and illustrious warrior in the battlefield.

Sudakshina at Abhisheka ceremony of Yudhisthra

Sudakshina was present at the consecration ceremony (abhisheka) of king Yudhishtra and had presented him a chariot with white Kamboja horses, yoked to it (MBH 2.53.5).

:Sudakshinasta.n yuyuje shvetaih Kambojajairhayaih || 5 ||

Sudakshina at Draupadi’s Swayamvara

According to epic evidence, Sudakshina Kamboj had participated in the Swayamvara of Draupadi, the princess of Panchala.

Sudaksinaz.ca.Kambojo.drdha.dhanvaa.ca.Kauravah. ||MBH 1.185.15||

Bhai Mani Singh gave away his life for protecting the principles of Sikhism. He was implicated in a false case and later condemned to be cut to pieces, limb by limb. If wish to know more about him, just go through a book written by London-based Punjabi, Jeewan Parkash Singh Deepak Mahrok. He has done research on Bhai Mani Singh – a scholar well versed in Sikh scriptures and Sikh philosophy.

Mr Mahrok in his book has claimed that the Kamboj community should feel honoured that a person of Bhai Mani Singh’s calibre belonged to them. Giving details, he has asserted that Bhai Mani Singh Kamboj was born on February 6, 1672, at Hansomajra village in Karnal district. He was not married and died at Lahore at the age of 66.

Source: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030505/cth1.htm

Bhai Mani Singh was a great Sikh personality of eighteenth century and occupies a very esteemed position in Sikh history. He assumed the control and steered the course of the Sikh destiny at a very critical stage in their history. A great scholar, a devoted Sikh and a courageous leader, Bhai Sahib willingly laid down his own life to uphold the dignity of the Sikh nation and religion. Bhai Mani Singh is a Martyr par excellence in Sikh history and his name has become an integeral part of daily Sikh Ardas (prayer).

It was in the village of Bhuman Shah that Suraj Prakash (Chandra Swami) was born on March 5th, 1930. His mother had a strong spiritual inclination. Right from the beginning, he had a very deep love and attraction for Baba Bhuman Shahji (1687-1747) and he later recognised him as his master. He also had a deep devotion and reverence for another great sage, Baba Shri Chanderji, who was one of the main exponents of the Udasin order.

As a child, Suraj Prakash used to have mystical experiences and visions of various saints unknown to him. He also had clairvoyant powers and knowledge of future events. In 1947, he was initiated into the Udasin order by Mahant Girdhari Dassji and his name was changed to Chandra Prakash. In 1951, he received his B.Sc. in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics from a college in Dehradun, northern India. In 1952, while studying for a Master”s Degree, the urge for God-realisation was so strong that he abandoned his studies and all worldly ties and justify for Haridwar. He grew his hair long and started wearing white clothes. He meditated two hours in the early morning and two hours in the evening and read Vedantic scriptures, like books by Swami Ram Tirth and Swami Vivekananda.

While in Haridwar, he met Swami Krishna Dassji, a sage with a rare love for Divine wisdom. Chandra Prakash was so impressed by his purity, simplicity and intense sadhana (spiritual practice) that only after staying with him several days, he asked the swami for the robe of a monk. The swami gave him these clothes and advised him to strictly observe the rules of a monk and follow in the footsteps of Baba Bhuman Shahji. From then on, he was addressed as Chandra Swami.

From there, he set out on foot to travel in the Himalayas and have the darshan (spiritual presence) of various saints. Later, he travelled to the northern states of Jammu and Kashmir, where he spent time in solitude, living in caves and small huts. This was a period of intense sadhana dedicated exclusively to God-seeking, which included prayer, breathing exercises, meditation, reading of scriptures and worship. During this period, he had numerous visions of great sages and saints, including Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo, Guru Nanak Devji and Baba Shri Chanderji.

One day, he had the vision of Rishi Sanat Kumar, who initiated him with a mantra (sacred phrase) and instructed him to recite it with a particular technique for a specific number of times. He devoted more than eight hours every night to the practice of the mantra and gave up all other spiritual exercises. This intense practice ended after three years. He then went back to his sadhana, and he again started having visions of various sages. Then, gradually all of this stopped. Everything was replaced by an ever expanding joy which filled his being more and more. Finally, the immutable, eternal Atman was realised as his essential nature and true Being. He was 29 years old at the time. In 1961, he justify Kashmir and went to live near Haridwar. He built several huts along the Ganges, in a forest nearby the town. Over the next four years, his realisation of the Self expanded to include the whole manifestation. Finally, he had the ultimate and integral realisation of the Divine at the age of 35.

He spent half of the year in complete silence and isolation, and during the other half, he made himself available for darshan and satsang for one hour in the afternoons. Many seekers came to him for spiritual guidance. In 1970, at the request of his devotees, he moved to Sewak-Niwas, a small ashram constructed for him by his disciples in Haridwar. In the late 1980′s

In the mid medieval some prominent members of Mahroks have been keenly associated with the Sikh Gurus and have played a prominent role in the creation of the Khalsa.

In the year 1699 when Sri Guru Gobind Singh created a new nation of Sant Sipahies to wage a just war against the continued repression and tyranny of the Moguls against the inhabitants of a disunited and disintegrated Hindustan. There in one corner was sitting his childhood friend and confident Bhai Mani Singh watching his friend transforming the demoralized people into a nation of Lions, which came to haunt the Moguls at a later date.

Bhai Mani Singh was a literary genius, who wrote the first Guru Granth Sahib while Guru Gobind Singh uttered the holy sermons. Bhai Mani Singh has many literary works to his credit such as:

Gyan Ratnawli Bhagat Ratnawli

7th December 1738 was the day when Bhai Mani Singh was hacked to death by the Lahore Suba.

He gave away his life protecting the principals of Sikhism. On the place at Lahore stands The Gurudwara Shaheed Ganj and will remain there for centuries to come.

Later from this tree Baba Sukha Singh Mahrok along with Sardar Mahtab Singh avenged the desecration of Golden Temple by beheading Massa Ranggar in the holy temple. Massa Ranggar used the holy temple premises as a place of entertainment with the ladies of ill repute. Baba Sukha Singh restored the holiness of the place with the help of other warrior saints of that time.

Sardar Natha Singh Mahrok , who was the Musahib (ADC) to Kanwar Nau Nihall Singh at the courts of Maharaja Ranjit Singh , and later on the Killadar of Shahpur Killa . After the Sikh wars with the British and subsequently the Sikhs defeat due to deceit and treachery of the Jats and Dogra Misals , the whole of the Sikh army was merged with the British army and a new regiment 19 Punjabi Sher Dal Platoon was raised . Sardar Natha Singh served meritoriously at various campaigns. Such was his honesty that the British assigned him along with four of his confidants to ferry the famous Kohinoor Diamond to Calcutta in route to London. This Diamond still shines in the crown of Queen Mother the Queen Elizabeth.

Sardar Bahadur captain Ram Singh, as the British Army addressed him was my great Grand Father. Keeping with the army tradition joined the Maharaja of Patiala army, but later on not being satisfied with the challenges there, he joined the British army in the 15th Sikhs known as the LOODIANA SIKHS by the British. Like his father he fought at various fronts, Sudan War 1884-85 and 1897-98 Northwest frontiers of India. Later on joined in the Royal Coronation of King Edward vii In London in 1902.He was awarded the Order Of British India, India General Service Medal, Sudan war Bronze Medal and a Gold Medal presented by the King Edward vii.

A few of these men from this tree contributed so much for the Sikhs as a nation and a country as a whole.

My grand Father Sardar Tara Singh Kamboj devoted his early life along with his father in the Akali movement and went to prison several times. Sardar Tara Singh Kamboj was the unsung hero of our tree, who felt passionately about the welfare of Kambojas. He funded many a writers and researchers to write and research about the Kamboj history.

Our senior generation at present at our village sunam, Patiala, Chandigarh, Bombay and many other cities have a great contribution in the making of this tree so high and mighty. From Politics to Performing Arts to creative writing to progressive farming and not forgetting our trees old profession THE ARMY have excelled.

Kamboj Community has been divided into two broad divisions of Gotras/Clans (Sud-Castes): 52 (Bawan) Gotras and 84 (Chaurasi) Gotras thus total 136 Gotras in all but in actual practice, the number of gotras appears to be more than 136.

Dhot Gotra is one of them and is the most prominent clan name found among Kamboj people living in all states of Northern India and in Marathas of Maharashtra. The Dhot Gotra Kambojas have earned great name in agriculture, military, and business. Earlier Dhots were having Multan & Khotewal their big empires/kingdoms from 674 to 714 A.D. in Punjab. King Shree Ram, King Khota Ram, king Ang Paul, King Mahi Paul, Prince Mahachawr (Later after embracing Islam Hazrat Dewan Chawli Mushaik Rahimtula) and King Sudh Paul were very famous kings among them. S Lal Singh former Finance , Planning, Co-operation, Power, Irrigation, Food & Supply Minister of Punjab who has won assembly election five times from Dakala in 1977, 1980, 1992, 2002 & 2007 is one of the well known Dhot of the recent past. He is a senior most Congress Party Leader and also the Vice President of Punjab Pradesh Congress Party. Dhots are numerously found as Hindus, Sikhs and the Muslims.

Kamboj Community

It is evident from the history of Punjab that during 6th Century A.D. Punjab was under the rule of King Shree Ram who belong to Dhot Gotra (Sub-Caste) of Kamboj caste. Shree Ram Dhot founded many township, colonies, forts, palaces and canals near the Multan which was his Capital. He founded “Khotewal Empire” near to Multan in the memory of his son Khota Ram. The remains(ruins) of forts and palaces Tibbs Ang Paul and Amarpura on the east side of Multan are still exists. Prince Ang Paul the eldest son of King Shree Ram Dhot was his successor and ruled the Multan province.
At the end of seventh century A.D., King Mahi Pal Dhot was a descendent of King Shree Ram Dhot ,and the ruler of Multan and Khotewal Empire, King Mahi Pal had two wives and one of them was a daughter (Kangna Brahm) of his minister Maha Panch Rattan who belonged to Rattanpal Gotra of Kamboj community. Her name was Kangna Brahm . Maha Panch Rattan Rattanpal was from Tehsil Chunia Town of District Lahore.

From this queen, the King had a son Prince Maha Chawra and a daughter . His second wife was the daughter of King Dahir of Sindh, from this wife , he had eleven sons including Sudh Ram , Jor Ram and a daughter . With the order of King Mahi Paul, Maha Panch Rattan had constructed a big canal renamed Dhotwah from river Satluj for irrigation and drinking purpose. Beside this, he had also carried out many projects for the welfare of general public . After death of king Mahi Paul, his elder son Prince Sukh Paul had taken over the throne/kingdom.

After conquering the Sindh empire, Mohammed Bin Kasim invaded Multan in the year of 714 A.D. ,at that time Multan was under the rule of Kamboj king Sudh Paul. The younger brother of King Sudh Paul, Prince Mahachawra who was a brave and trained General fought the enemy tooth and nail and defeated Amaududin Mohammed Bin Kasim but after few days , Mohammed Bin Kasim again attacked . However the Kambojas army fought heroically for some days but were defeated . King Sukh Paul was arrested and was released after executing a political agreement with enemy Nawab with a condition to pay harjana, the entire battle expenditure, His younger step brother Prince Maha Chawra was handed over to Mohammed Bin Kasim as Jamanti till the returning of entire battle expenditure but King Sudh Paul miserably failed to return the demanded money. However, later on Prince Mahachawra was produced in the court of Khaleeba HazratMohammed Bin Abdul Aziz and was forcibly converted to islam and was named as Hazrat Dewan chawali Mushaik Rahimtula and his sister Kangna Brahm had also embraced Islam but he was murdered in the age of thirty years by the angry people and his relatives in the year of 732 A.D.his sister Kangana Brahm committed suicide.

After the murder of Hazrat Dewan chawali Mushaik Rahimtula, the angry Nawab of multan attacked Kamboj republics of Khotewal and after fierce fighting was captured.

Thousands of terrorized Kamboj people also had to leave their ancestral homes, property had gone underground and moved to other parts of the country under pressure from Muslim invaders and thus took away their kingdom. This was the end of rule of Dhot Gotra Kamboj clan.

Shaheed Udham Singh

A meeting of the National Executive Committee of All India Kamboj Maha Sabha (Regd.) was held at the Shaheed Udham Singh Memorial Bhawan, Amritsar on November 5, 2008 under the chairmanship of Sh. Nanak Chand Kamboj, President of All India Kamboj Sabha and it was unanimously decided that a fervent appeal may be made to the hon”ble Prime Minister who is the Chairman of Jallianwala Bagh Trust to install a full sized bronze statue of our great martyr Shaheed Udham Singh at Jallianwala Bagh Amritsar to perpetuate the memory and to instill patriotism among younger generations and would sucsessfully plant the seeds of Nationalism, secularism, brotherhood. It is well known that this pioneer of freedom struggle avenged the Michael O, dwyer, farmer Lt Governor of Punjab on July 31, 1940. he made the supreme sacrifice at the altar of motherland”s freedom against slavery, tyranny and injustice.

His sacrifice will forever remain a source of inspiration for the coming generations for all times to come and will keep the torch of freedom lovers & is an example without any parallel in the history of india who was a true Nationalist and Secular in his thoughts and acts.