PREDECESSORS and SHORT
HISTORY:
Today one of the 25 States of the Republic of India, Assam was the
region
of the Kings of Kamarupa who were conquered in 1228 by the Ahom, a
people
that originally came from the Chinese province of Yunnan. With
time
the Ahoms were absorbed into the local Assamese population. The dynasty
lasted until 1819, when they were overrun by the Burmese, revived in
Upper
Assam from 1833 until 1838, when Assam was eventually annexed by the
British.
Rulers were.....
- Raja GADADHAR SINGH 1681/1696, married and had issue.
- Raja RUDRA SINGH (qv)
- Raja SIVA SINGH [Xiba Xingha] (qv)
- Raja PRAMATTA SINGH (qv)
- Raja RAJESVAR SINGH (qv)
- Raja LAKSHMI SINGH (qv)
- UNKNOWN, married and had issue.
- Raja KAMALESHWAR SINGH (qv)
- Raja CHANDRA KANTA SINGH (qv)
- Raja RUDRA SINGH 1696/1714
- Raja SIVA SINGH [Xiba Xingha] 1714/1744
- Raja PRAMATTA SINGH 1744/1751
- Raja RAJESVAR SINGH 1751/1769, married and had issue.
- UNKNOWN, married and had issue.
- Raja PURANADAR SINGH (qv)
- Raja LAKSHMI SINGH 1769/1780, married and had issue.
- Raja GAURINATH SINGH (qv)
- Raja GAURINATH SINGH 1780/1795
- Raja KAMALESHWAR SINGH 1795/1811
- Raja CHANDRA KANTA SINGH 1811/1817 and 1819/1821, married
and had issue.
- UNKNOWN, married and had issue.
- Raja Keshab Kanta Singh, born November 1852, was
granted the title of Raja
on the 2nd February 1861 for personal use only (#1) .
- Raja PURANADAR SINGH 1817/1819 and (1833/1838 in Upper
Assam).
- Raja YOGESHWAR SINGH 1821/1826
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