Administration of the Ahom state:
(i) The administration was centralised during first half of the 17th century.
(ii) The Ahom state depended upon forced labour to work for the state and were called paiks.
(iii) Almost all adult males served in the army during war and in other times, they were engaged
in building
dams, irrigation systems and other public works..
(iv) Ahom society was divided into clans or khels who often controlled several villages.
(v) The peasant was given land by his village community and even king could not take it away
withouth the permission of the community.