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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|1828 anti-British rebellion in Assam}}<br />
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{{Infobox Revolution<br />
| image = Sculpture of Ahom Rebellion.jpg<br />
| caption = Sculpture of the Ahom Rebellion in [[Shaheedi Park]], [[Delhi]].<br />
| date = {{Start date and age|1828}}<br />
| place = Deberapar Marangial Namghar, Toratoli, [[British India]]<br/><small>(present-day [[Jorhat]], [[Assam]], [[India]])</small><br />
| goals = Withdrawal of [[British troops]] from Ahom territories<br />
| result = East India Company (British) victory<br />
| side1 = [[Gomdhar Konwar]] and his followers<br />
| side2 = {{flag|East India Company}}<br />
| leadfigures1 = [[Gomdhar Konwar]]<br/>Dhanjoi Borgohain<br/>Jayram Kharagoria Phukan <br/> Doha Konwar Phukan<br />
| leadfigures2 = Captain Neufville <br/> Lieutenant Rutherforth<br />
| arrests = [[Gomdhar Konwar]]<br />
| charged = [[Treason]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Ahom Rebellion''' was an attempted uprising against the [[British East India Company]] in 1828 in [[Rangpur, Assam|Rangpur]] in present-day [[Assam]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gomdhar Konwar...The unsung hero |url=http://www.posoowa.org/story/gomdhar-konwar-unsung-hero |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218162912/http://www.posoowa.org/story/gomdhar-konwar-unsung-hero |archive-date=2014-12-18 |access-date=2014-12-18}}</ref> The rebellion was led by [[Gomdhar Konwar|Gondhar Konwar]], a prince of the [[Ahom dynasty]], along with his followers.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Das |first=Dhurba Jyoti |date=1 November 2022 |title=Anti-British Uprising in Assam (1826-30) |url=https://ijhssm.org/issue_dcp/Anti%20British%20Uprising%20in%20Assam%20(1826%2030)%20.pdf |journal=International Journal of Humanities Social Science and Management |publication-date=12 November 2022 |volume=2 |issue=5 |pages=96–98 |via=IJHSSM}}</ref> This is considered to be the first instance of a demand for independence from the British rule in [[Assam]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=राज्य के पहले स्वतंत्रता सेनानी गमधर कोंवर को सीएम ने अर्पित की श्रद्धांजलि |url=https://www.hindusthansamachar.in/Encyc/2021/9/15/CM-Dr-Sarma-visit-to-Gomdhar-Konwar-Memorial-Garden.php |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=www.hindusthansamachar.in |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Background ==<br />
At the end of the [[first Anglo-Burmese War]], the East India Company signed the [[treaty of Yandabo]] in 1826.<ref name="app-237">{{cite book |author=Lt. Gen. Sir Arthur P. Phayre |title=History of Burma |publisher=Sunil Gupta |year=1967 |edition=2 |location=London |page=237}}</ref> According to this treaty, Burma was to give the land of Assam to the British.<ref name="mha-214">{{cite book |author=Maung Htin Aung |author-link=Htin Aung |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofburma00htin |title=A History of Burma |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1967 |location=New York and London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofburma00htin/page/214 214–215] |url-access=registration}}</ref> The British had previously promised the Ahom king and local chiefs that following the war, the British troops shall withdraw from their territory.<br />
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== The revolt and aftermath ==<br />
Konwar, with the support of his counterparts Dhanjoi Borgohain and Jayram Kharagoria Phukan, charged at the British fort in [[Rangpur, Assam|Rangpur]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=गोमधर कुंवर - भारतकोश, ज्ञान का हिन्दी महासागर |url=https://bharatdiscovery.org/india/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0 |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=bharatdiscovery.org}}</ref> The [[British Army|British]], however, found out about the incoming [[ambush]] and were already prepared for it. The [[rebellion]] was suppressed near Deberapar Marangial Namghar, although the three leaders were able to escape and hide in the [[Naga Hills]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gondhar Konwar |url=https://indianculture.gov.in/node/2816096 |access-date=8 October 2024 |website=Indian Culture}}</ref><br />
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The East India Company pressured the kingdom to surrender Konwar to them, which they eventually did. Konwar was charged with [[treason]] and was [[sentenced to death]]. However, to maintain [[Diplomacy|peaceful relation]] with the [[Ahom people]], they reduced his sentence to seven years in [[exile]]. They also withdrew from the land as they had promised, and ceded it to the then Ahom king [[Purandar Singha]].<ref name="Bhuyan211">Bhuyan Dr. S.K. ''Tunkhungia Buranji'' or ''A History of Assam'' (1681-1826) second edition 1968 Department of Historical and Antiquarian Studies in Assam Guwahati p. 211</ref><ref name="Barbaruah338">Barbaruah Hiteswar ''Ahomar-Din'' or ''A History of Assam under the Ahoms'' 1981 p. 338</ref><br />
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