The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga notebook six

caption: Ahom king married to an Ang's daughter; tribute
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 19.9.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 28.8.1936-26.10.1936
refnum: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: Once a young Ahom king fled to Wakching and was adopted by one of Dzem-ang's (the Balang Ang's) ancestors. He married an Ang's daughter from Wanching, and took her with him when he went back to Assam. Wanching still get Rs. 140, yearly from Bihuber (a tea estate) as compensation for a yearly tribute paid by the Ahom rajahs "for the Wanching woman".
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