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Definition of Kamboj
1. Noun. A member of a Kshatriya community of people living in northwestern India and in Pakistan and Afghanistan, sometimes considered to be descended from the Kambojas.Arnold J. Toynbee observes: " ...the occurrence of the two names (i.e Kuru and Kamboja) in Transcaucasia as well as in and near India—and in Transcaucasia at close quarters—indicates that we have here two more names of Eurasian Nomad peoples who took part, and this in one another's company, in the Volkerwanderung of eighth and seventh centuries B.C; and, if, like so many of their fellows, these Kurus and Kambojas split into two wings whose paths diverged so widely, it does not seem unwarrantable to guess that a central detachment of this pair of migrating peoples may have found its way to Luristan and there have been taken into partnership by Kurus I's father Cispis". (''A Study of History'', volume 7, page 553)'''1964''', ''Political and social movements in ancient Panjab (from the Vedic age upto [sic] the Maurya period)'', pages 105–06, 126 (Buddha Prakash)'''1996''', Gursharan Singh (editor), the papers of the ''Punjab history conference'' of Punjabi University, Patiala (ISBN 81-7380-220-3, ISBN 81-7380-221-1)'''1987''', Misra, Satiya Deva (editors), ''Modern Researches in Sanskrit: Dr. Veermani Pd. Upadhyaya Felicitation Volume. Patna: Indira Prakashan'' ¹
2. Noun. A member of an Indo-Scythian ethnic group of people native to northwestern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, said to be descended from the Kambojas (the Royal Clan of the Sakas or Scythians).'''1964''', Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli, Giovanni Garbini, ''A bilingual Graeco-Aramaic edict by A?oka: the first Greek inscription discovered in Afghanistan'', page 17'''1993''', ''Watching Cambodia: Ten Paths to Enter the Cambodian Tangle'' (Bangkok: White Lotus; ISBN 1-879155-19-2, ISBN 1-879155-20-6, ISBN 974-8495-91-6, ISBN 974-8495-91-6), page 51'''2001''', ''Tai World: A Digest of Articles from the Thai-Yunnan Project Newsletter'' ([ ISSN 1326-2777) ¹
3. Noun. A member of the ruling Indo-European (Scytho-Aryan) group the '''Kambojas''', who settled in northwestern India in the 9th or 10th century BCE.'''2000''', ''Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture'', page 257 ¹
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