A History of Assam c10.12

c10.12

Bisva Singh died about 1540. During his reign there were hostilities more than once between the Ahoms and the Muhammadans, who advanced up the Brahmaputra as far as Koliābar, and who, when finally defeated in 1532, were pursued by the Ahoms as far as the Karatoya, but there is no reference to the subject in the records of Koch rule. The explanation may be that Bisva Singh's capital in Koch Bihār was far removed from the route taken by the Muhammadans and that, although he had defeated the local chiefs on both sides of the Brahmaputra as far east as the Bar Nadi, he had not at that time consolidated his rule and brought that part of the country under his direct administration. Or it may be that, not feeling strong enough to take his part in the war, he made no attempt to prevent the combatants from passing through his territory so long as they left him unmolested.