A History of Assam c15.18

c15.18

Elsewhere again, ruling chiefs who had made their submission to the Ahoms were transformed into governors acting on their behalf. To this category belonged the Rajas of Darrang, Dimarua, Rāni, Barduār, Nauduār and Beltola. They administered justice and collected the revenues in their own districts, but an appeal lay from their orders to the Bar Phukan and the monarch; those of them who held territory in the hills, however, were practically independent in that portion of their dominions. They were required to attend on the king in person with their prescribed contingent of men, when called upon to do so, and, in addition, all except the Raja of Rāni paid an annual tribute. Their office was hereditary, but they were liable to dismissal for misconduct.