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Kachari kingdom

1250 CE – 1832 CE (approx.) · capital Khaspur

The kingdom of the Dimasa people of Assam, which moved from Dimapur to Maibang and finally Khaspur in the Barak valley.

Origins

The Dimasa Kacharis ruled the Dhansiri valley from Dimapur, whose carved stone pillars survive, by the 13th century. Repeated wars with the Ahom kingdom, which sacked Dimapur in 1536, pushed the kings south to Maibang in the North Cachar hills, and in the 18th century to Khaspur in the plains of Cachar.

Rule and society

The kings ruled a Dimasa society organised in clans and gradually adopted Hindu kingship; in 1790 Krishnachandra and his brother Govinda Chandra were formally admitted to Hindu Kshatriya status, and the kingdom was styled Heramba. Courts and land records came to use Bengali. The kingdom alternated between tribute to the Ahoms and independence, and fought Manipur and the Jaintia kingdom.

Decline and legacy

Burmese invasions in the 1810s and 1820s ravaged Cachar. After Govinda Chandra, the last king, was assassinated in 1830 without an heir, the British East India Company annexed the plains in 1832. The hill areas followed later, and the region is now part of Assam.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Kachari kingdom. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/kachari-kingdom
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