Ahom people

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The Ahom (Pron: ) or Tai Ahom (Ahom: 𑜄𑜩 𑜒𑜑𑜪𑜨; Assamese: টাই-আহোম) are an ethnic group primarily found in the Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. They are the admixed descendants of Tai peoples who migrated into the Brahmaputra Valley and of indigenous populations incorporated into their society over the course of history, through a process called Ahomisation. Traditional accounts place the arrival of the Tai group led by Sukaphaa in 1228 and date the foundation of the Ahom kingdom to the same year. Recent scholarship has, however, questioned this chronology, arguing that the available Tai and Chinese sources may instead indicate that the Ahom polity was established in the 14th century. Over the following centuries, the kingdom expanded across much of the Brahmaputra Valley in present-day Assam and endured until the signing of the Treaty of Yandabo in 1826. The modern Ahom people and their culture are a syncretism of Tai and local Tibeto-Burman speakers. A 2024 genome-wide study...

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