Studying Kinship Relations of the Tai Ahom Community in Ethnolinguistic Perspective: Family Structure and Code of Conduct

Phukan, Khammoun; Nath, Arup Kumar

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“…Though there had been intermittent strains and temporary suspension of communication subject to the court temperament, but largely the political relationship was not completely severed till the end of Ahom rule. 27 Therefore, the pertinent question is whether buranji tradition in origin is Chinese in essence produced in Tai language and then gradually getting influenced by other historical and cultural traditions of South Asia, confluence with Indian historical tradition. Or what is the degree of Chinese influence on the Tai-Ahom buranji tradition if it all it was influenced?…”

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“…Parts of the route he traversed were extended territories of Mong Mao, the Shan state in Yunnan, making much of his journey smooth. 33 On the way beyond these territories, he seemed to have conquered and won over many local tribes such as the Nocte, Wancho, Tangsa nagas and many others who after more than a decade or so of resistance had finally come to accept his authority. 34 Sukapha reached the Brahmaputra valley in 1228 ad after having pacified and subjugated the more backward tribes and finally settled by establishing his capital at Charaideo in Sibsagar of present day Assam.…”

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Buranjis and the Asian History Writing Tradition

Narzary

2021

History and Sociology of South Asia

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The historiographical tradition of Assam called Buranji reached the Northeast of India with the coming of Ahoms in the first quarter of thirteenth century. The history of pre-colonial Assam is largely constructed on the basis of buranji and most modern historians mainly from the region have engaged with the buranji literature reproduced and interpreted by native scholars after the coming of the British. While the main focus of modern historians have been on the relevance and importance of buranji in the historical study of Assam, no significant study is visible in tracing the historical journey of this tradition itself. This article, thus, is an attempt to locate the buranji tradition in a trans-regional context by linking it with the historiographical practices of East and Southeast Asia, particularly by looking at the Chinese historical tradition to propose that certain similarities found in them are highly suggestive of a more active historical interaction between the Tai (Shan) and the Chinese, bearings of which can be seen in the buranji tradition.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Origin Of Buranjimentioning

confidence: 99%