A History of Assam c9.19

c9.19

The Chutiyas have numerous traditions, all of which point to their having followed a Hindu dynasty in Sadiya, or Vidarbha. The said dynasty appears to have collapsed by a process of internal decay, leaving the people of Upper Assam split up into a number of small independent communities. The Chutiya legends are full of all sorts of impossible absurdities which it would be useless to repeat, and it is questionable how far even the main incidents, which are summarized below, represent real facts.*