{"id":171827,"date":"2025-05-09T15:06:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=171827"},"modified":"2025-05-09T15:07:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:37:01","slug":"moamoria-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/moamoria-rebellion\/","title":{"rendered":"Moamoria Rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Moamoria Rebellion, which took place between 1769 and 1796, was a significant uprising against the Ahom rulers in Assam. This rebellion had a lasting impact on the Ahom dynasty, leading to its decline and playing a key role in the region&#8217;s shift towards British control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Who were the Moamorias? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Moamorias, also referred to as Mataks, were followers of the Mayamara Sattra, a religious group that championed equality and actively sought to spread their beliefs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What caused the rebellion? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rebellion was the result of a power struggle between the Moamorias and the Ahom kings, as the Moamorias gained influence and began to challenge the existing social and political order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Events:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The rebellion led to two periods where the Ahom king lost control of the capital.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Ahom kingdom was weakened, making it vulnerable to Burmese invasions and British colonization.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Moamorias, including groups like Morans, Chutias, and other castes, formed a unified identity as Mataks during the rebellion.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 1805, a treaty allowed the Moamorias to establish an autonomous region, the Matak Rajya, under the office of Borsenapati.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moamoria Rebellion, which took place between 1769 and 1796, was a significant uprising against the Ahom rulers in Assam. This rebellion had a lasting impact on the Ahom dynasty, leading to its decline and playing a key role in the region&#8217;s shift towards British control. Who were the Moamorias? The Moamorias, also referred to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":171828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171829,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171827\/revisions\/171829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}