Ahom revolt 1828
Also called: Gomdhar Konwar revolt · Topic: Peasant and Tribal Resistance under Company Rule · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
The Ahom revolt of 1828 was a rising of Ahom nobles in Assam against the East India Company. The Ahoms had ruled Assam for centuries. During the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–26) the British drove the Burmese out of Assam, and they had promised to leave afterwards. Instead they stayed and took over the region. The nobles rose in protest, but the revolt was crushed. It shows how the Company took over the north-east by staying on after a war, not by open conquest.
Example
In 1828 the Ahom nobles named Gomdhar Konwar as their king and rose against the British in Assam. The Company put the rising down. Later it chose a softer policy and handed part of upper Assam back to an Ahom prince, Purandar Singh.
Don't confuse with
- Kol Uprising (1831–32): a rising of tribal peoples such as the Mundas and Oraons in Chota Nagpur over land, not a revolt by a ruling nobility trying to win back a kingdom.
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