Military historian Shiv Kunal Verma has stressed on mainstreaming the battle glories of the North-east, saying that some of glorious wars were fought in the region which stand out for tactics and strategies. “The crushing defeat inflicted upon the Mughals on the army led by Mir Jumla by Ahoms had been so severe that even the British dreaded venturing into the region,” Verma told this newspaper, while discussing his book – Yodha: Illustrated Military History of India – The Epics (BCE) to the Uprising (1857). Verma said that “the British had been so terrified about the battle glories of the Ahoms that they invaded the Northeast through Burma”.
The military historian stressed that it’s important the documentation of the past of the Northeast be done with verification of the claims so that the rightful place of the region be restored at the national stage. “My father fought the 1962 and the 1971 wars, and one constant thing that we came across was about the Northeast region that very less was known about the people and their history. One tribe is not about the other across the river,” Verma told Deccan Chronicle.
Verma has spotlighted the heroics of Lachit Borphukan in his book. “Lachit Borphukan was appointed commander soon after the Mughals, under Mir Jumla, gained control over Guwahati and compelled the Ahoms to sign the humiliating Treaty of Ghilajharighat,” writes Verma in the book. Thereafter, Borphukan had organised his army, mastering the guerilla ta.