THE AHOM TRIBES AND THEIR MARRIAGE SYSTEM
The Tai Ahom people in Assam are the descendants of the early imperial dynasty of the kings and emperors of ancient China and constituted the highest aristocracy in ancient China. Tai-Ahoms of Assam are a small community of the great Tai race. The Tai is the most ancient and generic name denoting a great branch of the mongoloid people of Asia. The original homeland of the great Tai race was in the upper reaches of the Huang-Ho (Yellow river) of China, covering the coast of the Po-Hai Bay (Gulf of Chilli) into which the river Huang-Ho originally had flowed. Centuries that followed, they established their sway over the whole of the valley till their kingdom was occupied by the British in the wake o the Anglo-Burmise war of 1824-26. This Ahom community was thus the ruling people in the Brahmaputra valley for long six hundred years. The people used the term “Mung-Dun-Chun-Kham” to recognize their kingdom, but it was known as Assam in English. Originally Ahom are the Tai-Kadai f