A History of Assam c15.19

c15.19

There were numerous other officials, who were generally recruited from the fifteen families that have already been mentioned as possessing the monopoly of the highest appointments, but, for such as did not involve military service, the higher classes of the non-Ahom natives of the country were eligible, and also persons of foreign descent, provided that their families had been domiciled in the country for three or four generations.