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Aurangzeb's War with the Ahoms: Assam's Last Stand
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore Aurangzeb's costly and inconclusive war with the Ahom kingdom of Assam. After decades of Mughal expansion into the northeast, the Ahoms under King Chakradhwaj Simha and his brilliant commander Lachit Borphukan mounted a fierce resistance. The decisive 1671 Battle of Saraighat on the Brahmaputra River saw the Mughal fleet routed by a smaller Ahom force using guerrilla tactics and riverine warfare. Lucas unpacks the strategic importance of Assam's elephants, tea, and silk, the Mughal governor Mir Jumla's earlier invasion, and how the Ahoms…
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