Lores
The lores woven through the wiki. Each one runs through its real people, places and ages, and completes what the facts begin.
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The Ahom wars
An Ahom noblewoman could not weave her husband the armour-cloth that was held to make a warrior unkillable. When he fell, she armed a band of women and rode to the war herself.
The Vrindavani Vastra
The Assamese awakening
A saint set twelve weavers to weave the whole life of Krishna into one vast silk. It vanished over the Himalayas, was cut up by monks who could not read it, and ended scattered across the world's museums.
The Night of Saraighat
The Ahom wars
A dying general, a wavering fleet, and the river that kept Assam free of the Mughals.
How the Ahoms Buried a King
The Ahom court and its fall
By night the Ahom kings were carried to Charaideo and laid in great earthen mounds with their goods, and sometimes the living, in the moidam burials now on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The River That Made Assam
The wild Brahmaputra and the land
Assam is the land the Brahmaputra made. Follow the great river from a Tibetan glacier to a modern monsoon, and the whole valley assembles around you.