THE ALABOI RAN
The history of medieval Assam and to recognize the courageous quality, endless enthusiasm and the penance of the powerful Assamese troopers. Alaboi ran fought between the Ahom armed force and Mughals trespassers on 5th august 1669 at Alaboi close to the Dodora town where 10000 soldiers martyred their life to the sovereignty of Assam. The Ahom-Mughal clashes shapes a significant piece of the Assam history as it covers nearly the seventeenth century, however in the main decade of the seventeenth century the contentions were not immediate yet it transformed into outfitted fights during the subsequent decade. During the time of Alaboi ran Assamese king was chakradhvj singha and the Mughal king was Aurangzeb. Before the alaboi ran in 1667, mughal king dominated the particular territory from ahom. The Ahom king under the authority of Lachit borphukan recovery the teritory from mughal. After the 1667, the mughal king Aurangazeb which sent to Raja Ram Singh of Amber as the authority of the Mughal armed force, joined by Rashid Khan who was the previous Thanadar of Gauhati . To fortify the mughal armed force he teamed up with the soldiers of Bengal Command which comprised of 18,000 mounted force and 30,000 infantry, with 15,000 bowmen from Koch Bihar, 500 gunnery men, 21 Rajput boss and 4,000 troopers. As the updates on the coming of the Mughals came to the Ahom ruler Chakradhvaj Singha he sent his powers for the assistance of Lachit Barphukan who was designated as the Barphukan of the Ahoms. In that time the leder of Ahoms were also prepare the protect of assam. The Ahom leaders were Aton Buragohain, Borgohain, Barpatra gohain, kaliyaboriya phukon ect. From this episode we can heard 'Momai Kota Ghar.' And the epic dialouge-" My uncle isn't more prominent than my nation" came. The war between Ahom and mughal was going on in 1967. The Mughal general Ram singha won the tow wars in Darang but forced was retreat to Haju after losing the naval battle. In that time, there was a affair between Ram singha and Rashid khan. Assamese soldiers realizing the opportunity of this situation and defeted the mughal soldiers in Suwalkushi and Sesa. The mughal became out of the way and stayed in the hill of Alaboi. This place was good for the cavalry of the mughal. Despite the reluctance of general lachit, assamese soldiers got into battle under the guidance of king chakradhvj Singh. As a result, about 10,000 assamese soldiers lost their lives in one day’s war in Alaboi 1669. And this later became known as the famous Alaboi ran.
As a result of this war, we can see that the Mughal side did not benefit much later in this war because guwahati was still in the hand of Assam. After all, this war was an important chapter in the history of assam.