Tai Ahom: System of Government

The Ahoms formed a section of the great Tai race. They founded a kingdom in the early part of the thirteenth century and ruled Assam for nearly six hundred years. They could do so because of their peculiar system of government. The present work is an attempt to study the norms and forms of the government of the Ahoms with special references 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.