Sulikphaa (r. 1679–1681) also, Ratnadhwaj Singha was the twenty-eighth king of the Ahom Kingdom. He was only 14 years of age when Laluksola Borphukan, the Ahom viceroy of Guwahati and Lower Assam, raised him to the throne, after deposing the former king, Sudoiphaa. Due to his young age at the time of his accession, he was generally known as Lora Raja or the Boy-king. His reign was characterized by the atrocities committed by Laluksola Borphukan, who held the real authority behind the throne, in his name. The most notorious act which occurred during his reign was the mutilation of Ahom princes belonging to different phoids or clans of the Royal Ahom Dynasty. While most of the Ahom princes suffered mutilation, Prince Gadapani, the future king Gadadhar Singha, from the Tungkhungia branch of the Royal Ahom Dynasty, escaped, due to the efforts of his illustrious wife, Joymoti Konwari, who refused to divulge any information regarding her husband's whereabouts even in face of the tortures inflicted by the henchmen of Lora Raja. After Laluksola Borphukan was assassinated in court intrigues, the nobles at Kaliabar decided to get rid of the incompetent Lora Raja and put an able prince on the throne. Prince Gadapani, who was living incognito at a place called Rani in Kamrup at that time, was nominated for the throne. Sulikphaa or Lora Raja was deposed and exiled to Namrup, only to be executed later on.
Sulikphaa (r. 1679–1681) also, Ratnadhwaj Singha was the twenty-eighth king of the Ahom Kingdom. He was only 14 years of age when Laluksola Borphukan...
Borphukan's abandonment of Guwahati to the hands of Mughals and oppression via Sulikphaa alias Lora Roja. Soon after his ascension to the throne, he retook Guwahati...
prevent this bloody end, a new rule was introduced during the reign of Sulikphaa Lora Roja—claimants to the throne had to be physically unblemished—which...
Gadapani (later Supatphaa). She died at the hands of the royalists under Sulikphaa Loraa Roja without disclosing her exiled husband Gadapani's whereabouts...
was pitted with smallpox marks. According to the norm established after Sulikphaa Lora Roja, an Ahom prince had to be free from any physical disability...
the powerful minister, had been executed earlier (Gogoi 1968:492–493). Sulikphaa Lora Roja was deposed and then executed by Gadadhar Singha (Gogoi 1968:496–497)...
the powerful minister, had been executed earlier (Gogoi 1968:492–493). Sulikphaa Lora Roja was deposed and then executed by Gadadhar Singha (Gogoi 1968:496–497)...
of Saraighat. Later he was posted as Borbarua at the time of Ahom king Sulikphaa. Assam Buranji(Barua G C 1930) harvcol error: no target: CITEREFBarua_G_C1930...
Borphukan of the Ahom Kingdom In office 1677–1680 Monarchs Sudoiphaa Sulikphaa Preceded by Laluksola Borphukan Succeeded by Bandar Borphukan Personal...
on the throne at Sakbari dockyard. The new king assumed the Ahom title Sulikphaa, while the Hindu Brahmins conferred him the title Ratnadhwaj Singha. A...
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