Question

Administrative system of ahoms

Answer 1

The Ahom state depended upon forced labour. Those forced to work for the state were called paiks. A census of the population was taken. Each village had to send a number of paiks by rotation. People from heavily populated areas were shifted to less populated places.Whom clans were thus broken up. By the half of the seventeenth century the administration became quite centralised

Answer 2

The Ahom state depended upon forced labour. Those forced to work for the state were called paiks. A census of the population was taken. Each village had to send a number of paiks by rotation. People from heavily populated areas were shifted to less populated places.Whom clans were thus broken up. By the half of the seventeenth century the administration became quite centralised