Chutiya Kingdom

The Chutiya Kingdom was a late medieval state in northeastern India that emerged from tribal political formations in the early thirteenth century, before the Ahom state's own arrival in 1228, and was centered on Sadiya in present-day Assam and adjoining parts of Arunachal Pradesh, extending across the river valleys of the Brahmaputra, Subansiri, Lohit and Dihing. Governed as a Hindu-influenced monarchy, it grew prosperous in the fourteenth century partly by controlling trade routes linking Assam with Tibet and southern China, and it was described by later observers as the most advanced of the region's contemporary polities, supporting rural industries, a surplus economy and settled cultivators, weavers, blacksmiths, goldsmiths and traders. The kingdom fell to Ahom conquest around 1523 to 1524, after which its former capital region was administered as the Sadiya Khowa Gohain office under Ahom rule and its nobility and artisans were absorbed into the expanding Ahom administration.