Division of Kamata Kingdom
After the Koch-Ahom wars that saw Chilarai occupy Garhgaon the capital of the Ahom kingdom briefly, Koch rule was consolidated between the Sankosh river in the west and the Barnadi river on the east under the governorship of Chilarai. Chilarai's son, Raghudev, was the heir apparent to the childless Nara Narayan. A son (Lakshmi Narayan) born late to Nara Narayan dashed Raghudev's hopes of becoming the king. Raghudev and some trusted state officers traveled east on a purported hunting trip and declared himself king of the eastern portion at a place Barnagar near the Manas river. Nara Narayana did not react aggressively, and the kingdom was divided amicably with Raghudev promising to pay an annual tribute. This division occurred in 1581. When Nara Narayan died in 1587, Raghudev stopped paying tribute and declared himself independent.
The kingdom under Raghudev included the region between Sankosh and Barnadi rivers on the northern bank of the Brahmaputra river, and on the south the region west of the Kallang river that followed the course of the Brahmaputra as it bends south and right up to the forests of Mymensingh region, now in Bangladesh.
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