1. Describe the ‘Paik’ system in brief. Why was it seen as a very useful system for the Ahoms?
2. What kind of a relationship did the Mughals have with the Ahoms?
3. Where are the Gonds found in the Indian subcontinent?
4. What are 'matrilineal societies? Give examples of such societies.
5. What kind of relationship existed between the tribal/nomadic groups and caste-based
societies?
Answers
Explanation:
1 answer The Paik system was a method by which the Ahom king obtained service from the people and also provided service back to the people. By the 17th century it had evolved into a robust system that gave the Ahom kingdom a resilience in the face of a long protracted war against the Mughals.
2answer From the beginning the relationship between the Ahoms and the Mughals was hostile and that was due to certain factors, such as, Mughal alliance with Koch Bihar, the western enemy of the Ahoms and secondly the growing advance of the Mughals in north-eastern frontier which alarmed them
3answer Gond, group of aboriginal peoples (now officially designated as Scheduled Tribes) of central and south-central India, about two million in number.