THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1550–1826

Ahom kingdom (Assam)

The Ahom kings held the Brahmaputra valley from Sadiya down to the Bharali–Kallang line, where the Koch kingdom began. Their hold on the hill peoples on both sides varied.

The Ahom–Mughal wars moved the western frontier back and forth around Guwahati: the Mughals held Kamrup in 1639–67 and 1679–82, and the Ahoms won at Saraighat in 1671. The frontier agreed in 1639 was the Barnadi; Guwahati itself changed hands several times. Gadadhar Singha's victory at Itakhuli (1682) fixed the frontier at the Manas river until the end of the kingdom. The Moamoria rebellion (1769–1805) and the Burmese invasions of 1817–1826 wrecked the state, and the Burmese ruled Assam outright from 1821. The Treaty of Yandabo (1826) gave Assam to the Company.

See Ahom kingdom (Assam) on the map in 1682

On the map
1550–1826
Capital
Garhgaon; Garhgaon; Rangpur (Sivasagar); Jorhat (from 1794)

Rulers named in the sources

South Asian kingdoms, 1550–1857

From the fall of Vijayanagara's capital to the Revolt of 1857, beside the Mughal, Maratha, Durrani and British realms and a few successor states, many kingdoms ruled themselves. In the south: Travancore, Cochin, the Zamorin's Calicut, the Keladi Nayakas, the last Aravidu kings of Vijayanagara, the Nayaks of Gingee, and Mysore through the Wodeyar, Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan periods. In the Deccan and centre: the Gond kingdoms of Garha-Mandla, Deogarh and Chanda, Bastar, Ratanpur, Hyderabad after 1799, Nagpur, Satara, and the Holkar, Scindia and Gaekwad states after 1818. In the north: the Rajput kingdoms and Jat Bharatpur after the Mughal collapse, Rohilkhand, the reduced Awadh of 1803–56, Kumaon, Garhwal, Ladakh and Sikkim. In the east: the Ahom, Koch, Kachari, Jaintia, Manipur and Tripura kingdoms. In the west: Kutch and the Khanate of Kalat.

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