Assam’s Charaideo “Maidams”, the Ahom equal of the traditional Egyptian pyramids.
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Assam’s pyramid-like buildings referred to as moidams or maidams have met all of the technical requirements of UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma mentioned.
Charaideo in jap Assam has greater than 90 moidams, the mound-burial system of the Ahoms who dominated massive swathes of the present-day State and past for some 600 years till the arrival of the British within the 1820s.
“With great pride, happy to share a landmark achievement in our endeavour to get World Heritage Site status for Charaideo Maidams. The maidams have met all technical requirements of the UNESCO Secretariat. My gratitude once again to Hon PM Shri @narendramodi ji for the nomination,” Mr. Sarma tweeted on March 3 evening.
He connected a letter from Lazare Eloundou Assamo, the director of the World Heritage Centre’s cultural sector to Vishal V. Sharma, the everlasting delegate of India to UNESCO.
“The nomination of Moidams – the Mound-Burial System of the Ahom Dynasty met all of the technical requirements outlined in the Operational Guidelines concerning completeness check of nominations to the World Heritage List. It is important to recall that the technical completeness of a nomination does not imply that the site concerned is of Outstanding Universal Value and would necessarily be inscribed on the World Heritage List,” Mr. Assamo’s letter mentioned.
On January 21, Mr. Sarma mentioned the Prime Minister selected the Charaideo Moidams from amongst 52 tentative websites throughout the nation for nomination as a World Heritage Site.
This adopted the Assam authorities’s letter to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) with a file on the positioning for onward submission to UNESCO for his or her analysis for the 2023 cycle.
“Moidams (or Maidams) represent the late medieval (13th-19th century CE) mound-burial tradition of the Tai Ahoms in Assam, which lasted almost 600 years. Out of 386 Moidams explored so far, 90 royal burials at Charaideo are the best preserved, representative, and most complete examples of this tradition,” the letter said.
The letter to the ASI identified that the Charaideo Moidams enshrine the mortal stays of Ahom royalty together with the objects they cherished. But after the 18th century, the Ahom rulers adopted the Hindu methodology of cremation, later entombing the cremated bones and ashes in a Moidam at Charaideo.
The Moidams are extremely commemorated, it mentioned.
The nomination of the Charaideo Moidams coincided with the 400 th start anniversary of Lachit Borphukan, essentially the most celebrated Ahom basic who thwarted the makes an attempt of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb’s military to seize Assam.
