The present work is an attempt to study the norms and forms of the government of the Ahoms with special reference to public personnel administration. A study of this system provided many ideas on administration having great relevance to the modern times. Beginning with tracing the history of the Ahoms, the author proceeds to depict various ways and means of the Ahom administration and concludes with a comparative analysis of the then government with the present.
The Ahoms, formed a section of the great Tai race. They founded a kingdom in the Brahmaputra valley in the early part of the thirteenth century and ruled Assam for nearly six hundred years. This they could do because of their peculiar system of government, having the intrinsic value of its own. There are only two states in India, which can boast of inheriting their written history. One is Kashmir and the other is Assam. The Ahoms from the time of Sukapha had maintained a written history of their own which they called Buranji. The meaning of the word Buranji is not exactly 'history' as understood in English. 'Bu' is 'fool', 'ran' means 'education' and 'ji' stores. Therefore, Buranji means a store of teachings for the 'fools', meaning thereby history and knowledge, or more exactly, chronicles. A student of the Constitutional History of Assam will find a mine of information in these Buranji. The early English travellers and military personnel of the East India Company left for us many accounts of the Ahom kingdom and these form the valuable source materials. One can derive many important lessons from the working of the Ahom system of government. A study of this system provides us many ideas on administration having some relevance to the present time.
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