Chutia

Chutia, also called Sadiya after its capital, was a kingdom in the upper Brahmaputra valley. Before the Ahoms arrived in 1228, Chutia clans had established a settled kingdom around Sadiya.

Relations with the Ahoms began badly: around 1376 their king Sutuphaa was killed during an encounter with the Chutias. In 1512 the Ahom ruler Suhungmung seized Panbari, a Chutia dependency. King Dhirnarayan and his son fell in 1523, and the Ahoms annexed the kingdom; captured cannon and blacksmiths strengthened their army.