{"id":7868,"date":"2022-11-23T03:59:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7868"},"modified":"2025-03-28T23:29:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:59:30","slug":"lachit-barphukan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lachit-barphukan\/","title":{"rendered":"Lachit Barphukan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lachit Borphukan was a commander and councillor in the\u00a0<strong>Ahom Kingdom.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Ahom Kingdom resisted the invasion of the Mughal Empire several times and reigned in present-day Assam for over 600 years.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Ahom Dynasty was founded in\u00a0<strong>1228 in Assam\u2019s Brahmaputra Valley<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The first King of the Ahom Kingdom was\u00a0<strong>Chaolung Sukaphaa<\/strong>, who crossed the Patkai mountainous region to reach the Brahmaputra valley.<\/li>\n<li>In 1615, the Ahom Dynasty engaged in its first significant conflict with the Mughal Empire.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Mughals<\/strong>\u00a0conquered the\u00a0<strong>Ahom capital of Garhgaon in 1662<\/strong>\u00a0but were defeated in later battles.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, during the\u00a0<strong>battle of Saraighat in 1671, the Ahoms led by Lachit Borphukan successfully defeated the Mughals.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Borphukan is mainly known for his leadership in this battle.<\/strong>\u00a0By 1682, the Mughal influence in the region was completely eradicated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=3-day-long-celebration-of-400th-birth-anniversary-of-Assam%26%2339%3bs-Legendary-War-Hero-Lachit-Barphukan-to-begin-in-New-Delhi-today&amp;id=451247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All India Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lachit Borphukan was a commander and councillor in the Ahom Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7868","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\/7868","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=7868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}