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## Revolt of Moniram Dewan The people who tried to instigate the sepoys against the British government were members of the erstwhile elite class of Assam who were dreaming of throwing out the British from Assam and reinstating the Ahom monarchy with the grandson of former Ahom King Purandar Singh K...

## Revolt of Moniram Dewan The people who tried to instigate the sepoys against the British government were members of the erstwhile elite class of Assam who were dreaming of throwing out the British from Assam and reinstating the Ahom monarchy with the grandson of former Ahom King Purandar Singh Kandarpeswar Singha, as the King. The person who planned this was Maniram Barbhandar Barua who was more popular as Maniram Dewan. When the Indian soldiers declared mutiny in Meerut, Maniram Dewan was in Calcutta. He had gone there to file an application to the British government requesting that a portion of Upper Assam be placed under the rule of a scion of the Ahom royal family. In Calcutta Maniram Dewan met Madhu Mallik, a Bengali Mukriya and together they hatched a conspiracy to drive the British out of Assam. Bahadur Gaonburha, Phormad Ali, Piyoli Barus, Dutiram Barua, Mayaram Nazir etc were some elites of Assam who responded to Maniram Dewan's appeal. It was decided that Ahom Prince Kandarpeswar Singha would lead the soldiers in Assam in revolt and Maniram Dewan would bring arms and weapons from Calcutta to help them.