A History of Assam c14.84

c14.84

All this time the Burhā Gohāin had been making constant efforts to induce fugitive cultivators to return to their homes. He offered a free pardon to those who had fought on the side of the rebels, and many such persons came back, but a number of Moāmariās, who had taken refuge in Kachāri and Jaintia territory, preferred to remain where they were rather than place themselves in the power of their old enemy. This led to a long correspondence with the Kachāri and Jaintia Rajas, who both declined to drive away their new subjects. The Jaintia controversy appears to have terminated with the ignominious expulsion of an envoy from Rām Singh, the Jaintia Raja, because the letters which he brought were thought to be discourteous, and did not contain the adulatory epithets customary in the intercourse between oriental rulers.