ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the question of political governance amongst the Ahoms, a large and important ethnic minority community in Assam. Assam is one of seven states in north-eastern India, geographically referred to as being placed at the cartographic periphery, although strategically it holds a very important location, being situated on the border between South and South-East Asia on the one hand and between India and China on the other. The executive committee meeting of the North Bank District Ahom Association at Lakhimpur resolved that in the event of India being divided into Hindustan and Pakistan, Assam should be separated from India and constituted as a dominion on the basis of history, culture and ethnic identity. Many political organizations were formed from time to time as the Ahoms felt deprived of a legitimate share of political and other powers under the domination of caste-Hindu Assamese society.
