A History of Assam c17.36

c17.36

∗ *Ante* page 175.
* The dates of Bar Gosāin and his successors are given in a Jaintia Settlement Report which was written by Loch in 1839, and was found among the records of the Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet by Chandra Kanta Sen, who effected the settlement of 1897. I have followed the dates there given, except in the case of Bar Gosāin, whose abdication is mentioned in a copper-plate inscription bearing a date equivalent to 1770 A.D. The dates do not in all cases correspond to those on the (anonymous) coins, which were presumably issued to mark the accession of successive kings. If the dates given by Loch are correct, the explanation may be that there was sometimes a delay in issuing the new coins, owing to the postponement of the coronation ceremony or for some other reason. The coins which were probably issued by Bar Gosāin and Chatra Singh were dated two years, and those by Jatra Nārāyan and Rām Singh II one year, after the date of accession given by Loch. There is a coin bearing a date corresponding to 1785, which cannot be explained in this way. Possibly Bijay Nārāyan succeeded in this year and not in 1786.