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HAMLET
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause
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undisputed lords of the Brahmaputra for 600 years, undefeated in 17 attacks from the Mughal empire, the last of which was an epic river battle between the Ahom general Lachit Borphukan fighting in the army of the Ahom king Udayaditya Singha and the Amber Kachwaha Rajput general raja Ram Singh I under the banner of the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb. The Battle of Saraighat sealed the fate of the Mughal empire in Ahom territory; the Ahoms could not be defeated. One of the big missing links in our strategic pedagogy is lack of research on war strategies in Indian history. We keep looking at the Peloponnissian War. Maybe we would be better off understanding the war strategies of the Ahoms versus the Mughals rather than Athens versus Sparta.
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