The people who shaped Assam's history and culture.
The figures who belong to this age.
The Tai prince who crossed the Patkai in 1228 and founded the kingdom that would rule Assam for six centuries.
The administrator under Pratap Singha who organised the paik labour-and-militia system and created the great offices of state, and the father of Lachit Borphukan.
The Ahom commander who broke the Mughal fleet of Aurangzeb's general Ram Singh I at the Battle of Saraighat in 1671.
The Ahom king at the cultural height of the dynasty, who built the new capital at Rangpur and made Sivasagar a city of tanks and temples.
The Ahom king who annexed the Chutia and beat back the Kacharis and the first Muslim invasions, taking the Hindu title Swarganarayan.
The Ahom princess tortured to death for refusing to betray her fugitive husband, who would later become king and dig a great tank in her memory.
The great institution-builder who created the offices of Borbarua and Borphukan and the machinery that ran the kingdom until its end.
The hard, centralising king who ended the late-century anarchy, drove the Mughals from Guwahati at Itakhuli in 1682, and built the Dhodar Ali.
Figures who sit across the wider sweep of the region's history.
The fifteenth-century saint who founded Assam's neo-Vaishnava (Eka Sarana) movement and, with it, much of modern Assamese culture.
