PRESENT RULER: HH Nawab Bahadur SALAHUDDIN KHAN Bahadur, 10th Nawab of Amb, Feudal Khan and Jagirdar of Kulai and Badnak (in the Palal Tapa) since 1973. (Amb, Pakistan)

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Predecessor state was called Tanawal, later renamed Amb. It merged with Pakistan in 1973. Rulers were....

1. Khan HAIBAT KHAN 1800/1803, married and had issue.

   • Khan Hashim Ali Khan (qv)

   • Khan Nawab Khan (qv)

2. Khan HASHIM ALI KHAN, Chief of the Hindwal sept of the Tanawali tribe 1803/1805, he gained supremacy over the Palal Tappa, and subsequently, he and Ahamd Ali Khan Palal, Chief of Palal tappa, married each other's sister, Ahmad Ali, however grew jealous of Hashim Ali's influence, and invited him and his sister, Hashim Ali's wife, over to his village, massacred him and his followers numbering about 100 men, and sent his sister, the wife of Hashim Ali to Nawab Khan, brother of Hashim Ali, who married her. He was killed in 1805 ^(#2).

3. Khan NAWAB KHAN, Chief of the Hindwal sept of the Tanawali tribe 1805/1818, he defeated the Durranis, but met his death at the hands of Sardar Azim Khan in 1818, married (amongst others), the sister of Ahmad Ali Khan Palal, Chief of Palal tappa (widow of his brother, Hashim Ali Khan, see above), and had issue. He died 1818.

   • Khan Painda Khan (qv)

   • Khan 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. He died 1878.

     • Khan Abdullah Khan, married and had issue. He died 1888.

       • Khan Abdulrahman Khan, married and had issue. He died 1897.

         1. Khan Muhammed Khan, born 1879, died 1935.

         2. Khan 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.

4. Khan PAINDA KHAN 1818/1843, vigorously opposed the Sikhs, but lost all his territory to them, except for the tract around Amb, married and had issue. He died 1843.

   • Khan Jahandad Khan (qv)

5. Khan JAHANDAD KHAN 1843/1858, recovered part of the lost territiories with the help of the British Government and the Maharaja of Kashmir, married and had issue. He died 1858.

   • Nawab Bahadur Sir Muhammed Akram Khan (qv)

6. Nawab Bahadur Sir MUHAMMED AKRAM KHAN 1858/1907, born 1849, 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, married and had issue. He died 1907.

   • Nawabzada Muhammed Afzal Khan

   • HH Nawab Bahadur Sir Khan-i-Zaman Khan (qv)

7. HH Nawab Bahadur Sir KHAN-i-ZAMAN KHAN 1907/1936, born 1877, K.C.I.E. [cr.1921], granted the style of His Highness in 1919, and the title of Nawab Bahadur in 1921, married and had issue. He died 26th February 1936.

   • HH Nawab MUHAMMED FARID KHAN (qv)

8. HH Nawab Bahadur Sir MUHAMMED FARID KHAN 1936/1971, born 1893, K.B.E., married and had issue. He died 1977.

9. HH Nawab Bahadur SAEED KHAN 1971/1973, born 1934, married and had issue. He died 1973.

   • HH Nawab Bahadur SALAHUDDIN KHAN (qv)

   • HH Khonza Begum Ismat, married HH Mehtar Muhammed Saif ul-Mulk Nasir of Chitral, and has issue.

   • Nawabzada Jahangir Saeed Tanoli

10. HH Nawab Bahadur SALAHUDDIN KHAN (see above)