A History of Assam c17.38

c17.38

Chatra Singh, who, as we have already seen, succeeded Bar Gosāin in 1770, was the first ruler of Jaintia to come into collision with the British. In 1774 the country is said to have been conquered by a British force under a Major Henniker, but it was restored on payment of a fine. No record is forthcoming of the causes which led to this expedition, but probably it was undertaken as a punishment for some act of aggression against the inhabitants of the adjacent plains of Sylhet.