A History of Assam c14.60

c14.60

The officers and others who had been befriended or protected by Captain Welsh now became the victims of Gaurināth's vindictive spite. The Bar Barua, who had been appointed on that officer's nomination, was stripped of all his belongings and dismissed; the Bar Phukan was accused of disloyalty and barbarously murdered, and the Solāl Gohāin shared the same fate. The Bairāgi who had led the attack on Gauhāti was beheaded. All persons of the Moāmariā persuasion within the tract owning allegiance to the king were hunted down, robbed and tortured to death; and the brutalities to which they were subjected were so appalling that many committed suicide to avoid falling into the hands of their persecutors.