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“Dundiya rebellion.” Hindu History, 2026, https://www.hinduhistory.in/battles/dundiya-rebellion-1792/. Accessed .
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Hindu History. (2026). Dundiya rebellion. Retrieved , from https://www.hinduhistory.in/battles/dundiya-rebellion-1792/
The rebels were driven out of northern Kamrup and the rising was put down by Captain Welsh’s expedition in 1792.
01A kingdom pulled apart
By the late 1780s the Ahom kingdom was in deep trouble. The Moamoria rebels held Rangpur, the royal capital, and Swargadeo Gaurinath Singha had fled down the Brahmaputra to Guwahati. In the Borphukan’s western domain, Haradatta Bujarbarua raised the Dundiya rising. With bands of hired fighters, many of them barkandazes from Bengal, he overran most of northern Kamrup and made a bid for power of his own. Gaurinath, short of loyal troops, asked the Company for help.
02Welsh’s expedition
Cornwallis sent Captain Thomas Welsh up the river with a small force of sepoys late in 1792. He cleared the barkandaz bands from Guwahati and then turned on the Dundiya rebels north of the river, who could not stand against disciplined musketry and were beaten back out of Kamrup. Welsh went on up the valley against the Moamorias in 1793–94. His short stay taught the Ahom court that paid, drilled sepoys could do what the old paik levies could not.
The first armed intervention of the Company in Assam, thirty years before the Burmese wars brought it back for good.
