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Both the Gonds and the Ahoms were the tribal communities that had centralised administration. They were divided into clans or jatis. But both these communities were different in several aspects. The Gonds lived in a vast forested region called Gondwana – or “country inhabited by Gonds” and they practiced shifting cultivation. The Ahoms migrated to the Brahmaputra valley from present-day Myanmar in the thirteenth century and created a new state by suppressing the older political system of the bhuiyans (landlords). During the sixteenth century, they annexed the kingdoms of the Chhutiyas (1523) and of Koch-Hajo (1581) and subjugated many other tribes. When the Delhi Sultans were declining, a few large Gond kingdoms were beginning to dominate the smaller Gond chiefs. The Akbar Nama, a history of Akbar’s reign, mentions the Gond kingdom of Garha Katanga that had 70,000 villages.