A History of Assam c17.8

c17.8

There is no record or tradition suggesting that the Khāsis and Syntengs ever owned allegiance to a single prince. When they first emerge from obscurity, we find them, so far as we can trace them, split up into the very same units that existed at the beginning of the last century. Of these the chief were the State of Jaintia, already described, and that of Khairam or Khyrim, the capital of which was at Nongkrem, not far from Shillong. Of the latter, as of the Khāsi States generally, there is no historical record, and the references in the annals of other kings are scanty and vague.