A History of Assam c14.92

c14.92

The credit, however, was due, not to Kamalesvar, but to his able and energetic Burhā Gohāin, in whose hands he was a mere puppet. It was, as we have seen, this officer who alone upheld the Ahom cause during Gaurināth’s disgraceful reign, and it was he who, after Captain Welsh’s departure, conceived and carried out the idea of maintaining a properly disciplined standing army in the place of the old system of calling out the villagers to act as soldiers. It was he again who led the new troops in their earlier engagements and who supervised the operations in their subsequent campaigns. Nor was it only in the field that he distinguished himself. His success in restoring peace and quiet was almost equally attributable to his lenient treatment of the rebels who made their submission and to his wise and equitable system of administration. He restored Rangpur to something like its former condition, and did much to improve the new town at Jorhāt. The Bhogdai was excavated in order to provide this town with a better water-supply, and its communications were improved by the construction of a road connecting it with Basā.*