Question/Answers
Give short answers for the following questions.
1. How was a caste-based society different from a tribal society?
2. What do you know about the life of the nomadic tribal groups?
3. How did the tribal societies change their nature with time?
4. Who were Ahoms? Where was their original homeland?
Answers
Answer:
(1)Caste based society follows a set of rules whereas tribal society does not follow any rules of the common society. ... The livelihood of tribes is mainly agriculture and they get their food through hunting. In a caste based society, people work at different levels. their occupations differ from one another.
(2)Most of the tribal people were nomads. They move about with their animals. When the supply of food of these animals got exhausted in an area. They exchanged milk,honey,wool,ghee and so on with the settled agriculturists for grain and various other products.
(3)The emergence of large states changed the nature of tribal societies. ... The Ahoms built a large state which broughtmany changes in the Ahom society. The influence of Brahmanas increased. Temples and Brahmanas were granted land by the king.
(4)The original homeland of the Ahoms was Yunum of Southern China . They came to Assam and established a tiny kingdom in 1228 A.D in the easternmost part of India with Charaideo as its capital in the district of Sivasagar under the leadership of Siuka-pha, a Tai prince from Southern China .