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J. M. Foster — Note on Ghargaon, Asam. 
zillah Kamrup to the Assamese, which was from that time placed under 
the management of a great Assamese officer, the Barphukan, and formed a 
government equal to about a third of the whole kingdom. Jaiyadhajia 
Singh died in 1GG3. 
“ He was succeeded by Chupungmung who was assassinated in 1672. The 
latter was succeeded by his younger brother Sucklumpha who was secretly 
poisoned two years after at the instigation of the Bar Baruwa, who assumed a 
great degree of authority, although he had installed Sulung, the young prince of 
Samaguriya. The Queen objecting to the Bar Baruwa’s usurpation, laid a 
plot for destroying him which he discovered, and despatched the king with 
his own hands, whilst his myrmidons assassinated the Queen and members of 
the Council. The young king reigned but one month and fifteen days. 
The Bar Baruwa next raised Teenkungiya to the throne ; but the officers of 
Gowhatty with a body of troops proceeded to the metropolis, secured the 
Bar Baruwa, beheaded him and strangled the new Baja after a reign of 
twenty days. Chujinpha was then placed on the throne, who committed 
suicide in 1677. In 1G99, Chuclcungpha founded the city and fort of Bung- 
pur (Sibsagor), and caused the extensive tank to be made which still 
bears his name. In 1770, the Moamariahs captured Ghergaon, but it was 
recaptured five months later by the adherents of Luckmi Singh, who died in 
1780. The Moamariahs, in 1784, after some tremendous battles again cap- 
tured the place, and the king, Chuhitpungpha escaped to Gowhatti : after 
many changes of various kinds, the British Government sent a detachment 
to aid them in 1792, under Captain Welsh, who successfully put down the 
Moamariah insurrection.” The Burmese invasion, a matter of modern his- 
tory, was finally suppressed by the British troops at Bungpur in 1825 ; 
since that date, the authority of the Assam Bajas has been at an end.” 
Another version, by a contemporary, of the invasion of Assam is to be 
found in an old work entitled, ‘ Particular Events, or the most Consider- 
able Passages after the War of Five Years or thereabout, in the Empire of the 
Great Mogul,’ Tom. II. By Mons. F. Bernier, London, 1G71.’ 
P. 110. “ Aurengzebe too well knowing that a great Captain cannot 
be long at rest, and that, if he be not employed in a Forreign War, he will at 
length raise a Domestick one ; proposed to him to make War upon that rich 
and potent Baja of Aeliatn, whose Territories are on the North of Dake, 
upon the Gulf of Bengala. The Emir, who in all appearance had already 
designed the same thing of himself, and who believed, that the Conquest of 
this Country would make way for his Immortal Honour, and he an occasion 
oi carrying his Arms as far as China, declared himself ready for this Enter- 
prize. He embarked at Dake with a puissant Army, upon a Biver which 
comes from those parts ; upon which having gone about a hundred leagues 
North Eastward, he arrived at a Castle called Azo [Hajo], which the Bajah of 
