THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1250–1832

Dimasa (Kachari) kingdom

After the Ahoms sacked Dimapur (1536) the Dimasa kings ruled the North Cachar hills and the Kopili–Dhansiri uplands from Maibang. From the mid-18th century the kings ruled from Khaspur in the Cachar plains (the Barak valley).

The Burmese overran it in 1819–24, and the Company annexed the plains in 1832 and the hills in 1834. The date of the move to Khaspur is uncertain (accounts range from the 1690s to the 1750s). Kachari kingdom of the Dhansiri valley and North Cachar hills, one of the states that grew out of Kamarupa (Wikipedia 'Dimasa Kingdom'). Its founding date is unknown; Ahom chronicles place Kacharis here from the 13th century. Few rulers before the 16th century are securely dated. After the Ahoms sacked Dimapur (1536) the Dimasa capital moved to Maibang in the North Cachar hills.

See Dimasa (Kachari) kingdom on the map in 1750

On the map
1250–1832
Capital
Maibang; Khaspur; Dimapur

Rulers named in the sources

South Asian kingdoms, 1550–1857

From the fall of Vijayanagara's capital to the Revolt of 1857, beside the Mughal, Maratha, Durrani and British realms and a few successor states, many kingdoms ruled themselves. In the south: Travancore, Cochin, the Zamorin's Calicut, the Keladi Nayakas, the last Aravidu kings of Vijayanagara, the Nayaks of Gingee, and Mysore through the Wodeyar, Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan periods. In the Deccan and centre: the Gond kingdoms of Garha-Mandla, Deogarh and Chanda, Bastar, Ratanpur, Hyderabad after 1799, Nagpur, Satara, and the Holkar, Scindia and Gaekwad states after 1818. In the north: the Rajput kingdoms and Jat Bharatpur after the Mughal collapse, Rohilkhand, the reduced Awadh of 1803–56, Kumaon, Garhwal, Ladakh and Sikkim. In the east: the Ahom, Koch, Kachari, Jaintia, Manipur and Tripura kingdoms. In the west: Kutch and the Khanate of Kalat.

South Asia's regional kingdoms, 1000–1550

Between the Ghaznavid raids and the Mughal conquest, South Asia was shared by dozens of regional states: the Madurai Sultanate in the Tamil country, the sultanates of Gujarat, Malwa and Khandesh, the Reddi and Velama kingdoms of Andhra, the Gajapatis of Odisha, the Rajput kingdoms of Mewar and Marwar, the Ahom, Chutia, Kamata and Tripura kingdoms of the north-east, the successors of the Chera Perumals on the Malabar coast, and the Sinhala kingdoms of Gampola, Kotte and Kandy. Few medieval sources describe frontiers.

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