Met Prince of Tanawal | State of AMB | Tanawal Fort

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Amb also known as Fuedal Tanawal was a princely state of the former British Indian Empire ruled over by chiefs of the Tanoli tribe from either Pashtun or Barlas Mughals descent.The Tanoli submitted to British colonial rule in the 1840s. Following Pakistani independence in 1947, and for some months afterwards,The nawabs of Amb remained unaligned. At the end of December 1947 the nawab of Amb state acceded to Pakistan, while retaining internal self-government. Amb continued as a Princely state of Pakistan until 1969, when it was incorporated into the North West Frontier Province now (Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa).

In 1972, recognition of the royal status of the Nawab was ended by the Government of Pakistan.

Contemporary research and scholarship stresses that 'Ambolina/Embolina' might have been Greco-Roman pronunciations of an ancient settlement that existed in this location near the banks of the Indus River since early Hindu times; and it is most probable that this settlement was named as Ambhalina, or Ambalena, after the deity Amba Devi, also identified as Maha Devi, Shakti, Durga, Bhavani, Parvati, etc., several manifestations of the ancient Mother-goddess of Hinduism, who was specially venerated by the Gujjars and other tribes inhabiting the hill regions.

Amb State, once known as Mulk e Tanawal (country/area of Tanawal), was the home of the Tanoli . The early history of the region goes back to the centuries within the Mughal Empire, when around 1647 the Tanoli tribe of Pashtun conquered it and settled here on the banks of the Indus River and a wide area around it, which thus came to be known as Tanawal.


Nawab Sir Muhammad Khan Zaman Khan Tanoli, Nawab of Amb. At Darband, Amb State, 1923.
In 1854 British frontier officer General James Abbott postulated that Aornos was located on the Mahaban range south of modern Buner District.[citation needed] He proposed, as had Ranjit Singh's mercenary General Claude Auguste Court in 1839, to recognise Embolina as the village of Amb situated on the right bank of the Indus eight miles east of Mahaban. Be as it may, this is probably the location from which the Nawabs of Amb took their title much later.