A History of Assam c7.s1.18

c7.s1.18

Although in Assam, Khāsi is the only surviving language of the earlier Mongolian invaders, the fact that they penetrated as far as Chota Nagpur and (apparently) the Punjab, shows that they must have entered Assam in great numbers. But as their physical type was similar to that of later immigrants, it is impossible to form any idea as to the extent to which their descendants are represented in the present population of the province. It seems probable that, except in the Khāsi and Jaintia Hills, they were subjugated by later invaders, adopted their forms of speech and gradually intermingled with them.