A History of Assam c12.77

c12.77

In 1658 Pramata Rāi rebelled against his grandfather Jasa Manta Rāi, Raja of Jaintia, and called on the tributary chief of Gobhā to help him. The latter refused, and Pramata Rāi thereupon destroyed four of his villages. He appealed for help to the Kachāris, who were preparing to come to his assistance, when the local Ahom officials intervened and said that, as the Ahoms were the paramount power, it was they whose protection should be sought. The Gobhā chief accordingly went with seven hundred men to Jayadhvaj Singh and begged for help. Orders were issued to the Bar Phukan to establish him in Khāgarijān, corresponding more or less to the modern Nowgong, and this was accordingly done.