The Ahom Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of Assam, was a late medieval state in the Brahmaputra Valley of what is now Assam, India, conventionally dated from 1228, though the exact chronology of its founding is disputed, with the state not maturing fully until the sixteenth century; it lasted until 1826. It was governed as a bureaucratic feudalism and aristocratic monarchy under a king called the Swargadeo, or Chao-Pha in the Ahom language, assisted by senior ministers called Patra Mantris including the Burhagohain and Borgohain, and its labor system rested on the Paik system of corvee service; the kingdom initially practiced the Ahom religion before its rulers adopted Hinduism around 1648. A multi-ethnic state in which ethnic Ahoms made up less than a tenth of the population by the 1870s and 1880s, it repelled repeated Mughal invasions in the seventeenth century before collapsing under internal rebellion and Burmese invasion, ending with the establishment of British control in 1826.
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