A History of Assam c14.89

c14.89

About this time Krishna Nārāyan, the Darrang Raja, having fallen into disfavour, was superseded by his relative Samudra Nārāyan. The latter was strictly enjoined to do his utmost to recover fugitives and settle them in their old villages, a matter in which Krishna Nārāyan appears to have been somewhat remiss. He was also told to prevent the Bhutias from encroaching. As the Bhutia authorities had shortly before complained of encroachments beyond the Kamalā Ali, which they claimed as the boundary, and had been put off with an evasive answer, it would seem that the intention was to win back the tract of country which the Bhutias had seized during the disturbances of the previous reigns, and that the so-called raids were merely efforts on the part of the Bhutias to maintain their hold on it.