page_title: Chutia people
section_title: Chutia rule (1187-1673)
hierarchical_section_title: Chutia people / Chutia rule (1187-1673)
caption_attribution_description: English: Chutia Kekura Dola(Palaquin) donated by king Satyanarayan to the Gharmora Satra.
context_page_description: The Chutia people are an ethnic group originating in the Indian state of Assam. They are part of the Kachari group. The Chutia people, through the Chutia dynasty, formed their kingdom in the present Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh and reigned from 1187 to 1673.
  The Chutiya people are one of the major and earliest section of the plain inhabitants of Assam who have migrated from present-day Southern China. The seat of the Chutias when they were in the ascendant, appears to have been about Lakhimpur and the back of the Subansiri River. They held the territories to the north of the Brahmaputra as far down as Sonitpur with the Dikarai and the Ghiladhari rivers as the western borders of their kingdom. On the south bank, they were spread till the Disang river. They spoke a language of Tibeto-Burman origin but over time, started speaking Assamese language and adopted Hinduism.
  The Chutia community are recognized as an Other Backward Class by the Government of India and are an ethnic Assamese-speaking group.During the colonial period, the Chutia community had the second largest population in Upper Assam.
context_section_description: The Chutia Kingdom was an early medieval state in eastern Assam  on the northern bank of the river Brahmaputra. The kingdom absorbed the ancient Pal dynasty and reigned for over 400 years in northeastern Assam and areas of present-day Arunachal Pradesh, with the capital at Sadiya. The kingdom controlled the entire region of present Assam districts of Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Tinsukia and parts of Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Sonitpur.
  It was the dominant kingdom in upper Assam till the 16th century in which it expanded from Parshuram Kund in the east to Vishwanath in the west. During the medieval times, the Chutia people were considered to be the most developed group in the northeastern region of India. Most illustrious of the Chutia kings was Gaurinarayan (Ratnadhwajpal), son of Birpal. He brought many other Chutia groups into his kingdom. In 1224 Ratnadhwajpal defeated Bhadrasena, the king of Swetagiri. Then he went on to subjugate Nyayapal and marched toward Kamatapur, where he formed an alliance with the Kamata ruler by marrying a princess. Then he marched to Dhaka, and made friends with the Gauda ruler.
  The hostilities with the Ahoms began when the Chutia Kingdom expanded to the south and during which Ahom king, Sutuphaa, was killed by the Chutia king during a friendly negotiation. This conflict triggered a number of battles between the two sides, which saw great lost of men and money. The simmering dispute often flared till 1523-24 when the Ahoms struck the Chutia Kingdom in its weakest state, they finally took Sadiya and killed the then king Nityapal. The Ahoms established their rule by instituting the position of Sadiyakhowa Gohain, the governor in charge of Sadiya. But the Chutia had dispersed to frontier regions, and continued raids against the Ahoms. It finally ended in 1673, when the Chutias fall under the domination of the Ahoms.
caption: Chutia Kekura Dola(Palaquin) donated by king Satyanarayan to the Gharmora Satra.
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