Prior to the advent of the British into the Northeast region in - TopicsExpress



          

Prior to the advent of the British into the Northeast region in the early 19th century, the Assamese and the Nagas had their neighbourly quarrels often fierce and violent. These historical disagreements were rarely over land ownership and rights with both ethnic communities mutually respecting their respective abodes in the picturesque hills and plains of the Northeast. In fact during better times the Ahom kings of Assam granted tax free fishing rights to Nagas in the Assamese lands as well as Posa, which was annual gift payment made to Naga chiefs with reciprocal matrimonial alliances with Ahom royal families. In effect the Nagas and other ethnic groups in the Assam Himalayas all around the Brahmaputra river valley, while being autonomous administratively, were the sentinels of the Ahom kingdom of its frontiers with Myanmar, Manipur and Tibet.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 18:57:49 +0000

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