Briefly explain the administartion of the Gonds and the Ahoms. PLEASE I HAVE AN EXAM TOMORROW!!! Expert Answer Preferred
Administration of the Ahoms:
- They migrated to the Brahmaputra valley from present-day Myanmar in the thirteenth century.
- They created a new state by suppressing the older political system of the bhuiyans (landlords).
- During the sixteenth century, they annexed the kingdoms of the Chhutiyas (1523) and of Koch-Hajo (1581) and subjugated many other tribes.
- The Ahoms built a large state, and for this they used firearms as early as the 1530s.
- By the 1660s they could even make high- quality gunpowder and cannons.
- Those forced to work for the state were called paiks.
- Each village had to send a number of paiks by rotation.
- Almost all adult males served in the army during war.
- Ahom society was divided into clans or khels.
- They worshipped their own tribal gods.
Administration of the Gonds:
- They practised shifting cultivation.
- The large Gond tribe was further divided into many smaller clans.
- Each clan had its own raja or rai. About the time that the power of the Delhi Sultans was declining, a few large Gond kingdoms were beginning to dominate the smaller Gond chiefs.
- The Akbar Nama, a history of Akbar’s reign, mentions the Gond kingdom of Garha Katanga that had 70,000 villages.
- The administrative system of these kingdoms was centralised.
- The kingdom was divided into garhs. Each garh was controlled by a particular Gond clan.
- This was further divided into units of 84 villages called chaurasi.
- The chaurasi was subdivided into barhots which were made up of 12 villages each.