A report on Assam and Ahom kingdom
The Ahom kingdom (, 1228–1826) was a late medieval kingdom in the Brahmaputra Valley in Assam.
- Ahom kingdomThough a western portion of Assam as a region continued to be called Kamrup, the Ahom kingdom that emerged in the east, and which came to dominate the entire Brahmaputra valley, was called Assam (e.g. Mughals used Asham); and the British province too was called Assam.
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Dimasa Kingdom
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The Dimasa Kingdom (also Kachari kingdom ) was a late medieval/early modern kingdom in Assam, Northeast India ruled by Dimasa kings.
The Dimasas had a tradition of worshipping Kechai Khaiti, the war goddess common among all Kachari peoples: as the Rabhas, Morans, Tiwas, Koch, Chutias, etc. According to an account in a Buranji, the first Ahom king Sukaphaa (r.
Northeast India
5 linksEasternmost region of India representing both a geographic and political administrative division of the country.
Easternmost region of India representing both a geographic and political administrative division of the country.
It comprises eight states – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim.
In the early 19th century, both the Ahom and the Manipur kingdoms fell to a Burmese invasion.
Kamarupa
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Kamarupa (also called Pragjyotisha or Pragjyotisha-Kamarupa), an early state during the Classical period on the Indian subcontinent, was (along with Davaka) the first historical kingdom of Assam.
In the 16th century the Ahom kingdom came into prominence and assumed for themselves the legacy of the ancient Kamarupa kingdom and aspired to extend their kingdom to the Karatoya River.
Chutia Kingdom
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The Chutia Kingdom (also Sadiya ) was a late medieval state that developed around Sadiya in present Assam and adjoining areas in Arunachal Pradesh.
The kingdom fell in 1523-1524 to the Ahom Kingdom after a series of conflicts and the capital area ruled by the Chutia rulers became the administrative domain of the office of Sadia Khowa Gohain of the Ahom kingdom.
Guwahati
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Guwahati (, ; formerly rendered Gauhati, ) is the biggest city of the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India.
The city was the seat of the Borphukan, the civil-military authority of the Lower Assam region appointed by the Ahom kings.
Battle of Saraighat
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The Battle of Saraighat was a naval battle fought in 1671 between the Mughal Empire (led by the Kachwaha raja, Ram Singh I), and the Ahom Kingdom (led by Lachit Borphukan) on the Brahmaputra river at Saraighat, now in Guwahati, Assam, India.
Koch Hajo
3 linksThe kingdom under Raghudev and his son Parikshit Narayan of the Koch dynasty that stretched from Sankosh river in the west to the Bhareli river in the east on the north bank of the Brahmaputra river.
The kingdom under Raghudev and his son Parikshit Narayan of the Koch dynasty that stretched from Sankosh river in the west to the Bhareli river in the east on the north bank of the Brahmaputra river.
It was created by dividing the Kamata kingdom then under Nara Narayan in medieval Assam.
After the Koch–Ahom conflicts that saw Chilarai briefly occupy Garhgaon, the capital of the Ahom kingdom, Koch rule was consolidated between the Sankosh river in the west and the Subansiri river on the east under the governorship of Chilarai.
Koch dynasty
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The Koch dynasty (Pron: kɒʧ; 1515–1949) ruled parts of eastern Indian subcontinent in present-day Assam and Bengal.
Koch Bihar aligned with the Mughals and the Koch Hajo branch broke up into various sub-branches under the Ahom kingdom.
Moamoria rebellion
2 linksThe Moamoria rebellion (1769–1805) was the 18th century uprising in Ahom kingdom of present-day Assam that began as power struggle between the Moamorias (Mataks), the adherents of the Moamara Sattra, and the Ahom kings.
Assamese language
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Assamese, also Asamiya ( অসমীয়া), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the northeast Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language.
In the past, it was the court language of the Ahom kingdom from the 17th century.