The Talatal Ghar is regarded as the most impressive architecture of Tai Ahom also known as Rangpur Palace situated in the northern region of Assam in Rangpur, Sivasagar.
The grand structure of the famous Talatal Ghar was build between 1751 AD and 1769 AD by one of the very prominent Ahom king Swargadeo Rajeswar Singha who build the testament as an army base which has been existing as tall and strong for many centuries.
The beautiful monument is built with purely organic materials bricks and cement that are organic that consists of a mixture of rice powder and eggs of duck and this is considered to be a very fascinating fact about the monument. Talatal Ghar is worthy for its rich history and lively Assamese culture and traditions. It is extremely popular for housing two secret tunnels of which one is connected with Dikhow stream around three kilometres distance and another one is connected to the Garhgaon fortress lies at the distance of sixteen kilometres and used as an escaped way at the time of attack and Ahom wars.
There is a total of three floors underground that were meant for the reason of the king to empty the place immediately at the time of emergency and crisis. Kareng Ghar is generally the ground floor at the upper part of the Talatal Ghar which was used by the royal ones of Assam. The successor of the famous Ahom king Swargadeo Rajeswar Singha who is known as Raja Swargadeo Rudra Singha attached the topmost floors during the time of his regime when the state was under his authority.
Swargadeo Rudra Singha brought major changes in the palace during his rule as he made the Talatal Ghar a very graceful and refined royal palace with seven-story which was precisely eye-catching for anyone. He also brought refinement and changes in the artistic view by using the rooms in the palace with long corridors as hiding chambers.
The visitors nowadays can only visit the upper three parts of the Talatal Ghar which includes the ground floor, first floor, 2nd and 3rd floor and the underground floor have been sealed off. With the passage of time most of the wooden parts of the palace have disappeared as it has been destroyed in various ways. The GRP (Ground Penetrating Survey) during the survey of 5 days carried by IIT-Kanpur in collaboration with Archeological Survey of India, Guwahati circle at Talatal Ghar and Kareng Ghar, Sivasagar undertook in 2015 didn't reveal or disclosed the existence of any secret tunnel so sometimes the secret tunnel is considered as rumours.
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