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A History of Assam

1905

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 [...] The history of the Ahoms shows how a bray% and vigorous race may decay in the 'sleepy hollow' of the Brahmaputra valley; and it was only the intervention of the British that prevented them from being blotted out by fresh hordes of invaders first the Burmese and then the Singphos and Kharntis and also possibly the Daflas Abors and Bh.utias. [...] 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 confluence of the Bra.hmaputra and Lakhya rivers on the south; that is to say it inclucled roughly the Brahmaputra valley Bhutan Rangpur Grch Bihar the north-east of Mymensingh and possibly the [...] 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. [...] After them there was a chief named Ghatak the ruler of the Kiats who are said to have been a powerful race much addicted to meat and strong drinks.2 In the chronicles of the Tippera kings it is said that the ancient name of their country was Kiräta 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 Kharnbu Limbu and
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Pages
472
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144990
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Frontmatter
i-xix Edward Gait view
Chapter One Prehistoric and Traditional Rulers
1-21 Edward Gait view
Chapter Two The Period From the Fourth to the Twelfth Centuries
22-36 Edward Gait view
Chapter Three Events of Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries (Excluding Ahom History)
37-46 Edward Gait view
Chapter Four The Koch Kings
47-70 Edward Gait view
Chapter Five The Rise of the Ahom Kingdom
71-107 Edward Gait view
Chapter Six The Period of the Muhammadan Wars
108-163 Edward Gait view
Chapter Seven The Climacteric of Ahom Rule
164-199 Edward Gait view
Chapter Eight The Decay and Fall of the Ahom Kingdom
200-238 Edward Gait view
Chapter Nine System of Government
239-256 Edward Gait view
Chapter Ten Social Conditions
257-267 Edward Gait view
Chapter Eleven Economic Conditions
268-277 Edward Gait view
Chapter Twelve Literature
278-285 Edward Gait view
Chapter Thirteen Religion
286-292 Edward Gait view
Chapter Fourteen Fine Arts
293-298 Edward Gait view
Chapter Fifteen The Kacharis
299-310 Edward Gait view
Chapter Sixteen The Jaintia Kings
311-320 Edward Gait view
Chapter Seventeen Manipur
321-325 Edward Gait view
Chapter Eighteen Sylhet
326-331 Edward Gait view
Chapter Nineteen The Burmese War
332-340 Edward Gait view
Chapter Twenty Consolidation of British Rule
341-370 Edward Gait view
Chapter Twenty-One Relations with Frontier Tribes
371-377 Edward Gait view
Chapter Twenty-Two Important Events Of Recent Times
378-403 Edward Gait view
Chapter Twenty-Three Growth of the Tea Industry
404-414 Edward Gait view
Appendix
415-432 Edward Gait view
Index
433-449 Edward Gait view

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