Question
Explain the Ahom society.
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Answer
- Almost all adult males served in the army during war.
- They were also engaged in building dams, irrigation systems and other public works.
- The Ahoms also introduced new method of rice cultivation.
- Ahom society was divided into clans or khels.
- There were very few castes of artisans, so they came from the adjoining kingdoms.
- A khel often controlled several villages.
- The peasant was given land by his village community.
- Even the king could not take it away without the community's consent.
- In the beginning the Ahoms worshipped their own tribal gods.
- Temples and Brahmanas were granted land by the king.
- In the reign of Sib Singh (1714-1744), Hinduism became their major religion.
- The Ahom kings did not completely give up their traditional beliefs after adopting Hinduism.
- Poets and scholars were given land grants.
- Theatre was encouraged.
- Important works of Sanskrit were translated into the local languages.
- Historical works, known as buranjis, were also written-first in the Ahom language and then in Assamese.
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