Volume : II, Issue : III, March - 2013

Crisis and Decline of the Ahom State: the Eighteenth Century Perspective

M Parwez

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Assam was ruled in the 18th century by Ahoms, who were a anch of the Shan/Tai race. The Shans were occupying the northern and eastern hill tracts of upper Burma and western Yunnan, where they formed a group of states called Mung–mau or Pong. In 1228 AD, the Ahom pressed by the Burmese in the Maulung district of upper Irawadi crossed the Patkai range and entered into the eastern part of the Brahmaputra Valley and Sukapha was the chief of this marshal group of the Ahoms. They had initially established themselves in the south–eastern corner of the Brahmaputra Valley after subjugating the Moran and Borahi tribes, who were then got assimilated with in the Ahom system.The Ahom state was not part of the Mughal Empire except some part of it remain under their control for some time. But the consequent changes in the exiting state structure ought some kind of contradiction. The Ahom state also declined in the eighteenth century and therefore the paper is an attempt to study the process of decline.

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M Parwez Crisis and Decline of the Ahom State: the Eighteenth Century Perspective International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.II, Issue.III March 2013

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