Paik System

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The Paik System was a method of corvee labor on which the Ahom State was based. Because the entire revenue depended on this system, the state updated the records of the subjects very frequently.

Paik 

Every subject of the Ahom kingdom who was not a higher officer was a paik. There were two kinds of paiks -- kanri and chamua.

Got 

Four paiks formed a got. Every paik was entitled to receive land for his home and gardens (bari) and cultivation (ga-mati). At any given time, a paik from a got was in service of the king. During that time, the other paiks from his got tended his fields. If a paik cultivated land in addition to his ga-mati, he had to pay a tax on it. The ga-mati was the property of the state which was neither hereditary nor transferable.

Due to difficult times, the number of paiks in a got was reduced to three in the time of (get the name of the Swargadeo here).

Liksou 

A liksou was a paik without any ga-mati, and in the service of an Ahom noble.

Khel 

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