Ahom–Mughal conflicts
Mughal attack on the Ahom kingdom
The Ahom–Mughal conflicts (November 1615 – 16 August 1682) were a series of wars, military campaigns, skirmishes and treaties between the Ahom kingdom and the Mughal Empire, principally over control of Kamrup and the western Brahmaputra Valley. The conflicts followed the Mughal conquest of Koch Hajo, which brought Mughal-controlled territory into direct contact with the expanding western frontier of the Ahom kingdom.
The struggle was characterised by repeated advances and reversals rather than an uninterrupted succession of victories by either side. The Ahoms made major gains in Kamrup in 1636, but a Mughal counter-offensive defeated the combined Ahom–Koch forces and re-annexed Kamrup in 1637. In 1662, Mir Jumla captured a succession of Ahom positions and occupied the Ahom capital at Garhgaon, while the resulting Treaty of Ghilajharighat required the Ahoms to cede western Assam and pay a substantial indemnity. The Ahoms recovered Guwahati in 1667, but suffered another major defeat at the Battle of Alaboi in 1669 before defeating the Mughal army commanded by Ram Singh I at the Battle of Saraighat in 1671. The final Mughal position at Guwahati was eliminated in the Battle of Itakhuli in 1682, after which the Manas River again became the western boundary of the Ahom kingdom.
The conflicts comprised 17 recorded military engagements, of which 9 ended in Ahom victories and 8 in Mughal victories. A widely repeated modern narrative inaccurately portrays the conflict as a sequence of "seventeen Ahom victories", a formulation that has appeared in news media and official public discourse despite the historical record including substantial Mughal victories as well.
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The immediate background to the conflict lay in the division of the Koch kingdom and the subsequent Mughal conquest of Koch Hajo.
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