Rani Gaidinliu: The Zeliangrong Uprising’s Youngest, Boldest Voice
She was thirteen years old. She had never been to school. She lived in a small village tucked inside the...
The Great Forest Uprising 1917: When the Kuki Tribes Said No to the British Empire
While the guns of World War One were thundering across the fields of Europe, a different kind of war was...
Anglo-Manipuri War 1891: When Manipur Chose to Fight to the Last Man
In April 1891 CE, on a small hill outside the village of Khongjom in Manipur, a Meitei commander named Major...
Pa Togan Nengminza: The Garo Resistance Against British Annexation
In 1872 CE, when the British Empire tightened its grip on the Garo Hills of Meghalaya, a warrior named Pa...
The Jaintia Rebellion: The Farmer Who Defied the British Empire
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7he8VjQ05pZ3LR7O4HaRBD?si=_M21fH4jRMi4dHH2GYMKcg In 1862, deep in the mist-covered Jaintia Hills of present-day Meghalaya, a rebellion erupted that the British East India...
U Tirot Sing: The Khasi Chief Who Fought an Empire for Four Years
The British Empire had roads to build and hills to cross. The Khasi people had a homeland to protect. When...
Treaty of Yandabo 1826: How Assam Lost Its Greatest Dynasty Forever
The Ahom Kingdom had survived six hundred years and defeated the Mughal Empire seventeen times. But it could not survive...
The Fall of Sadiya: How the Chutiya Kingdom Met Its End in 1524
In 1524 CE, the ancient Chutiya Kingdom fell to the expanding Ahom forces after centuries of proud independence in the...
The Battle of Saraighat That Stopped a Mughal Empire
There are battles won by numbers, and then there are battles won by something far more powerful — the unbreakable...
Koch Kingdom and Majuli Island: Assam’s Golden Age of Culture
While the Ahom Kingdom was holding firm in the east, a new power was rising in the west. The Koch...
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