Who was the Ahom king during the time of the Battle of Saraighat
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ANSWER:
Sunyatphaa or Udayaditya Singha was the Ahom kingat the time of the Saraighat battle, and he ruled from 1670 CE - 1672 CE. After the demise of his elder brother in the midst of the Ahom-Mughal war, Sunyatphaa was made the king. His regimesaw the end of Mughal-Ahomwar where the Mughal forces led by Raja Ram Singh I of Amber was eventually defeated by the Ahom troops led by Lachit Borphukan, Ahom’s commander in the Saraighat battle.
EXPLANTION:
The Saraighat battle which was fought in the year 1671 on the river Brahmaputra at Saraighat, was the final battle and the last effort by the Mughals to outspread their terrain into Assam. This battle was fought between the Mughals that was led by Raja Ram Singh I and the Ahoms which was led by Ahom’s commander Lachit Borphukan. In the ensuing war the Ahoms defeated the Mughals by brilliantly using the terrain, guerrilla tactics, shrewd diplomatic parleys to buy time, military intelligence, psychological warfare, and by taking leverage of the Mughals’ weak navy force.
Answer:
Udayaditya Singha was the Ahom king during the time of the ‘Battle of Saraighat’.
Explanation:
The ‘Battle of Saraighat’ was fought against the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb’s army and the Ahom army was led by General Lachit Borphukan. The war had started during the time of Swargadeo Chakradhwai Singha who died in the middle of ‘Ahom-Mughal war’.
He was succeeded by Swargadeo Udayaditya Singha who saw the end of the Ahom-Mughal war. The nobles of his kingdom were unhappy with his devotion to Paramananda Sannyasi, who was a saint from Brindaban.