 Debera was a member of the Ahom Lukhurakhun clan, and he held the rank of a "Hazarika", commander of one thousand men.He was the son of Kharagom, the Ahom officer who had been killed in the Dafala campaign in 1672 CE.Debera was very much enraged by the atrocities committed on the Vaishnava Mahantas by Udayaditya Singha.