A History of Assam c12.45

c12.45

A census of the people was taken; and, where this had not already been done, they were divided off into clans, and officers were appointed over them. To protect the country on the Kachāri frontier, four hundred families of Ahoms from Abhaypur, Dihing and Nāmdāng were settled around Marangi. A number of families from the more thickly inhabited parts of Lower Assam were transferred to some of the sparsely populated tracts higher up the river, and the immigration of artisans of all kinds was encouraged. The country round the Dihing was opened out by roads to Charāideo and Dāuka. The towns of Abhaypur and Mathurapur were built; Jamirguri was surrounded by an embankment, and the palace at Garhgāon was protected in the same way. The want of an embankment as a line of defence having been experienced at the time of the Koch invasion under Sukladhvaj, the Lādaigarh was constructed