write a detail on the gonds and the ahoms with some pictures
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The Gonds are among the largest tribal groups in South Asia and perhaps the world. The term Gond refers to tribal peoples who live all over India's Deccan Peninsula. Most describe themselves as Gonds (hill people) or as Koi or Koitur.
Scholars believe Gonds settled in Gondwana, now known as eastern Madhya Pradesh, between the ninth and thirteenth centuries AD . Muslim writers describe a rise of Gond states after the fourteenth century. Gond dynasties ruled in four kingdoms (Garha-Mandla, Deogarh, Chanda, and Kherla) in central India between the sixteenth and mid-eighteenth centuries.
Maratha power swept into Gond land in the 1740s. They overthrew Gond rajas (princes) and seized most of their territory. Some Gond zamindaris (estates) survived until recently. However, Gonds are similar to many tribal groups today in that they face severe economic hardships. Although some Gond groups own a great deal of land, others are classified as Scheduled Tribes, which means they need special social and economic help.
The Ahom (Pron: /ˈɑːhɒm/), or Tai-Ahom is an ethnic group found today in the Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. They are the descendants of the Tai people who reached the Brahmaputra valley of Assam in 1228 and the local people who joined them over the course of history. Sukaphaa, the leader of the Tai group and his 9000 followers established the Ahom kingdom (1228–1826 CE), which controlled much of the Bramhaputra Valley in modern Assam until 1826. Even though the Ahom made up a relatively small portion of the kingdom's population, they maintained their original Ahom language and practiced their traditional religion till the 17th-century, when the Ahom court as well as the commoners adopted the Assamese language, and Ekasarana dharma and Saktism religions.
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Due to the social changes that occurred in the different tribes, new states developed.
The Gonds
The Gonds lived in the forested areas of Gondvana (region in present-day Odisha, India). they practised 'shifting cultivation' (is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to grow naturally while the cultivator moves on to another plot).
The large Gond tribe was divided into smaller clans which had their own 'rajas' or 'rais'.
Large Gond kingdoms began to dominate the smaller Gond chiefs.
The administrative system then became centralised as the kingdom was divided into 'grahs' which were ruled by the different Gond tribes. The garhs were further divided into 'chaurasis' (units of 84 villages) which were further divided into 'barhots' (units of 12 villages).
Due to the emergence of these new states, the Gond society began to be divided into unequal social classes.
Garha Katanga was a rich state and it was large as it had 70,000 villages. Thus it faced many invasions, and was finally defeated by the Mughals. Still some of the Gond kingdoms survived for some time but later became weaker and stuggled unsuccessfully against the stronger Bundelas and Marathas.