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.

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Ahoms:-The Ahoms built a large state and for this they used firearms as early as  the 1520's.By the 1660's they were able to make high quality gunpowder and cannons.The Ahom state depended upon forced labour.Those who were forced to work were known as paiks.Every  village had to send a number of paiks by rotation.Almost all adult males served in the army during war.At other times they were engaged in public works like buliding dams and irrigation systems.The Ahom society was divided into clans or khels.A clan controlled several villages.A peasant was given land by his village community.

Gonds:-The large Gond tribe was divided into clans.Each clan had its own raja or rai.The gond tribe had 70000 villages.The Gond kingdom's administration became centralised.The kingdom was made up of garhs.Each garh was controlled by a Gond clan.The garh was further divided into chaurasi which consisted of 84 villages.The chaurasi was further divided into barhots which were made up of 12 villages each.The emergence of large kingdoms changed the nature of the tribal societies.Their basically equal society got divided into unequal social classes. 

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