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A History of Assam. Second Edition. Revised

1926

The Munda family on the other hand is allied to the Khasi of Assam and the Mon-Khmer languages of Burma and belongs like them to the Austro-Asiatic family : this again is a branch of the most widely diffused linguistic family in the world—the Austric—dialects of which are spoken in many parts of South-East Asia and in islands of the Indian and Pacific oceans as far as Easter Island off the coas [...] In the Jogini Tantra which is probably a later work Kamarupa is said to extend from the Karatoya river on the west to the Dikhu on the east and from the mountain of Kanjagiri on the north to the conflutn4 of the Brahmaputra and Lakhya rivers on the south ; that is to say it included roughly; thNrahmaputra valley Bhutan kanour Koch Bihar the n-east of Mymensingh and possibly the Garo Hil [...] Kampith from the Karatoya to the Sankosh Ratnapith from the Sankosh to the Rupahi Suvarnapith from the Rupahi to the Bharali and Saumarpith from the Bharali to the Dikrang. [...] Elsewhere Ratnapith is said to include the tract between the Karatoya and the Mona's Kampith that between the Monas and Silghät on the north bank of the Brahmaputra and Bhadrapith the corresponding portion of the south bank while Saumarpith as before is the most easterly tract. [...] ter them there was a chief named Ghatak the ruler of die Kiräts who are said to have been a powerful race much addicted to meat and strong drinks.t In the chronicles of the Tippera kings it is said that the ancient name of their country was Kirata and the word still survives as the designation of a tract in the Sub-Himalaya between the Dud Kosi and Arun rivers and of the Khambu Limbu and Yä
history
Pages
406
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141727
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xiv Edward Gait view
Chapter I.Prehistoric and Traditional Rulers
1-21 unknown view
Chapter II.The Period From The Seventh To The Twelfth Centuries
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Chapter III.Events of Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries (Excluding Ahom History)
36-45 unknown view
Chapter IV.The Koch Kings
46-69 unknown view
Chapter V.The Rise of the Ahom Kingdom
70-105 unknown view
Chapter VI.The Period of the Muhammadan Wars
106-159 unknown view
Chapter VII.The Climacteric of Ahom Rule
160-194 unknown view
Chapter VIII.The Delay and Fall of the Ahom Kingdom
195-232 unknown view
Chapter IX.The Ahom System of Government
233-i unknown view
Chapter X.The Kacharis
247-258 unknown view
Chapter XI.The Jaintia Kings
259-268 unknown view
Chapter XII.Manipur
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Chapter XIII.Sylhet
274-279 unknown view
Chapter XIV.The Burmese War
280-288 unknown view
Chapter XV.Consolidation of British Rule
289-318 unknown view
Chapter XVI.Relations With Frontier Tribes
319-325 unknown view
Chapter XVII.Important Events of Recent Times
326-351 unknown view
Chapter XVIII.Growth of the Tea Industry
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Appendices
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Index
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