Mir Jumla's invasion of Assam
| Invasion of the Ahom kingdom | |||||||
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| Part of the Ahom–Mughal conflicts | |||||||
According to spoken accounts, approximately 10 Moidams were damaged by Mir Jumla II's army. | |||||||
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| Ahom kingdom | |||||||
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Mir Jumla Diler Khan | Sutamla | ||||||
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30,000 cavalry 12,000 infantry 323 war boats | -- | ||||||
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Mir Jumla's invasion of Assam, between 4 January 1662 and January 1663, was the most intrusive of all Mughal invasions of the Ahom Kingdom in the 17th century. Led by Mir Jumla II, the subahdar of Bengal during the reign of Aurangzeb, the Mughals managed to occupy the Ahom capital of Garhgaon. Nevertheless, the distressed Mughal forces returned with a treaty where the Ahoms agreed to a vassal status with a tributary arrangement akin to the ones the Mughal Empire had with the Rajputs. Mir Jumla died enroute to Dhaka, and the Ahoms pushed the Mughal garrisons out of Assam within four years, when Ahom forces took control up to the Manas river in December 1667.