A History of Assam c13.127

c13.127

∗ The terms Morān, Matak and Moāmariā are often used discriminately, but they are in reality quite distinct. Morān is the name of a tribe, and Moāmariā that of a sect, while Matak refers to the country once ruled by the Bar Senapati. When the Singphos began to raid, they found the people of this tract better able to defend themselves than those residing under the decayed power of the Ahoms, and so called them Matak, strong, as distinguished from the Mullong, or weak, subjects of the Ahoms. The Bar Senapati was a Chutiya by tribe.