question_answer 5)

How was the administration of the Ahom state organised?      

Answer:

The Ahom state depended upon forced labour. Those forced to work for the state were called paiks. A census of the population was taken. Each village had to send a number of paiks by rotation. People from heavily populated areas were shifted to less populated places. Ahom clans thus broken up. By the first half of the seventeenth century the administration became quite centralised. Almost all adult males served in the army during war. At other times they were engaged in building dams, irrigation systems and other public works.