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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 densely populated areas were shifted to less populated areas. Ahom clans thus broke up. By the first half of the seventeenth century, the administration became quite centralised.
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