Describe the administrative of gonds & ahoms.
Dear Student,
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.