A History of Assam c16.44

c16.44

The process of Hinduization had, probably, already commenced at Haibong, at least among the royal family and the court. At Khāspur it proceeded rapidly, and in 1790, the formal act of conversion took place; the Raja, Krishna Chandra, and his brother, Govind Chandra, entered the body of a copper effigy of a cow. On emerging from it, they were proclaimed to be Hindus of the Kshatriya caste, and a genealogy of a hundred generations, reaching to Bhim, the hero of the Mahābhārat, was composed for them by the Brāhmans. Many of the names are purely imaginary and others are misplaced, while some kings, who, as we know from other sources, reigned in fairly recent times, are not mentioned at all. The list, which will be found in Hunter’s Statistical Account of Assam (Vol. II, page 403), is clearly a compound of oral tradition and deliberate invention, and has no historical value.