What the Ahoms Built and Why It Lasted
The Ahom kingdom did not fall to the Mughals. That fact alone is worth the journey to Sivasagar. From 1228 to 1826, a dynasty that arrived from present-day Myanmar held the Brahmaputra valley through six centuries of war, flood, and internal fracture, and the Mughals, who sent seventeen expeditions, never held it. What they left behind is not a ruin field. It is a working landscape of tanks, temples, and earthworks that the Archaeological Survey of India has been documenting for decades without fully finishing the job.
