{"id":17433,"date":"2023-11-26T10:10:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T04:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17433"},"modified":"2025-04-05T04:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T22:47:17","slug":"lachit-borphukan-upsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lachit-borphukan-upsc\/","title":{"rendered":"Lachit Borphukan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Lachit Borphukan<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>He has been revered in Assam as the warrior who defeated Mughal armies in\u00a0the Battle of Saraighat in 1671.<\/li>\n<li>He was\u00a0commander of the Ahom armies during the battle of Saraighat \u2013 fought on the banks of Brahmaputra in Guwahati.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>He was a brilliant military commander.<\/li>\n<li>He was chosen as one of the five Borphukans of the Ahom\u00a0kingdom by king Charadhwaj Singha and given administrative, judicial, and military responsibilities.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Borphukan\u00a0preferred guerrilla tactics which provided an edge to his smaller, but fast moving and capable forces.<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0died a\u00a0year after the Battle of Saraighat from a long festering illness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key points about the AHOM Kingdom<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ahom kings ruled large parts of what is now known as\u00a0Assam for nearly 600 years, from the early 13th century to the early 19th century.<\/li>\n<li>This was a\u00a0prosperous, multi-ethnic kingdom which spread across the upper and lower reaches of the Brahmaputra valley, surviving on rice cultivation in its fertile lands.<\/li>\n<li>The Ahoms engaged in a series of conflicts with the Mughals from 1615-1682, starting from the reign of Jahangir till the reign of Aurangzeb.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What Is Sandy Guerrilla warfare?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a type of warfare fought by irregulars in fast-moving, small-scale actions against orthodox military and police forces and, on occasion, against rival insurgent forces, either independently or in conjunction with a larger political-military strategy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1979513\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Prime Minister pays homage to the courage of Lachit Borphukan on Lachit Diwas<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lachit Borphukan has been revered in Assam as the warrior who defeated Mughal armies in the Battle of Saraighat in 1671.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}