A History of Assam c10.53

c10.53

It must not be imagined from the foregoing remarks that Hinduism had become the universal religion in the Brahmaputra valley. This was by no means the case. The great mass of the Kachāri, Rābhā, Lālung and other aboriginal tribes still held to their old tribal beliefs, just as do some of them even to the present day. No pressure was put upon them to change their creed; and it is recorded that Nar Nārāyan issued an edict setting aside the tract north of the Gosāin Kamala Ali for the practice of aboriginal forms of worship. Before starting on his expedition against the Ahoms he made special arrangements for the performance by his Kachāri soldiers of their tribal rites on the banks of the Sankosh river.