How
was
the
administration
of
the
Ahom
state
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organised?
Answers
Explanation:
The Ahom state depended upon forced labour. Those forced to work for the state were known as paiks. A census of the population was taken. Each village had to send a number of paiks by rotation. People of densely populated areas were shifted to thinly populated areas. Ahom clans were thus broken up. By the first half of the 17th century, the administration became quite centralized.
Ahom society was divided into clans or khels. A khel often controlled several villages. The peasant was given land by his village community and not even the king could take the land away without the Community's consent.
Answer:
How was the administration of the Ahom state organized?
Ans:
The Ahoms migrated to the Brahmaputra valley from present-day Myanmar in the thirteenth century and they created a new state by suppressing the older political system.
The Ahoms built a large state. The Ahom state depended upon forced labour.
Those forced to work for the state were called paiks.
Each village had to send a number of paiks by rotation.
By the first half of the seventeenth century, the administration became quite centralised.
Almost all adult males served in the army during the war.
Ahom society was divided into clans or khels. A khel often controlled several villages.
The peasants were given land by his village community. Even the king could not take it away without the community’s consent.