The similarities between the history of the Gonds and the Ahoms were:
- Both were tribes that grew in power.
- Both tribes had centralized administration.
- Both tribes were divided into clans or jatis.
The differences between the history of the Gonds and the Ahoms were:
- The histories of Gonds and Ahoms were different in that while the Gonds were completely annexed by the Mughals, the Ahoms managed to reclaim their independence soon after their annexation.
- Gonds practised "shifting cultivation" while the Ahoms did not.
- Gonds lived in a vast forested region called Gondwana; the Ahoms migrated to the Brahmaputra valley from present-day Myanmar