Kingdoms & Periods
The main polities of greater Assam, from deep past to republic.
Walk the kingdoms
Every kingdom of Assam braided onto one clock. Click an age for a quick preview, then click it again to open its full book.
The whole timeline
Deep past & classical
The deep past and the classical age, the world before the valley broke into many competing hands.
Powers of the valley
The powers that rose along the Brahmaputra, whoever held the valley's heartland.
Kamata & Koch
The western successors of Kamarupa, the Koch dynasty's patronage of arts, the long survival as a princely state into independence.
Bara-Bhuyans
Between the decline of Kamarupa and the rise of the Ahoms, central Assam was held by a loose confederacy of landed chiefs known as the Bara-Bhuyans.
Darrang & Koch Hajo
The eastern half of the Koch kingdom: Koch Hajo under Chilarai's line, its conquest by the Mughals, and the long afterlife of the Darrang Raj as an Ahom buffer state on the north bank.