Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c9.92

c9.92

The Annamites annexed the northern province of Amarāvatī in A.D. 1402 and the Central province of Vijaya in A.D. 1471. About the middle of the sixteenth century they annexed the Cham territory up to the river of Phanrang. The kingdom of Champā was now reduced to a small principality, with its capital at Bal Chanar in Phanri. An account of its petty chief has been left by the officers of S.S. Galathee who met him there in A.D. 1720. In course of the eighteenth century the Annamites took even Phanrang. In 1822, the last of the long line of Hindu kings, unable to bear the oppressions of the Annamites, passed over to Kambuja with a colony of exiles, leaving princess Po Bia to guard over the so-called Royal treasures of Cham at Bal Chanar. With her death passed away the last emblem of Hindu colony in Champā.