Nawab Sir Muhammad Farid Khan TanoliKBE was the last ruling Nawab of the princely state of Amb, from 1936 till 1969. He faced several rebellions from his own clan which led to the state crumble up into more than 13+ khanates of his own clans who rejected his rule. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1946 New Year Honours list.[2]
A state in a subsidiary alliance with British India until 1947, when the Nawab acceded to Pakistan, in 1958 Amb was reported to have an area of 590 square miles and a population of 48,656.[3]
After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, Amb became fully independent, and remained so for the rest of 1947, but on 31 December the Nawab acceded his state to Pakistan.[4]
Nawab Farid khan Tanoli's contributions to the Pakistan movement were acknowledged by the Quaid e Azam.[5][6]
^Amiya Ranjan Mukherjee, Current Affairs (1958), p. 337
^Z. H. Zaidi, CHRONOLOGY OF ACCESSION OF STATES TO PAKISTAN in Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah Papers: The States (Quaid-i-Azam Papers Project, 1993), p. xxxix
^Mahomed Ali Jinnah, Z. H. Zaidi, Quaid-I-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah Papers: First Series, Volume III: On the Threshold of Pakistan, July 1–25, 1947 (Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN978-969-8156-07-7, 1120 pp.)
^Sana Haroon, Frontier of faith: Islam in the Indo-Afghan borderland (Columbia University Press, 2008, ISBN978-0-231-70013-9, 254 pp.)
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