Jaintia

Jaintia was a Pnar kingdom in the Jaintia Hills and the Sylhet plains, centred on Jaintiapur. Brahmin ministers ruled as rajas after 1120.

The Pnar Syiem Sutnga line rose around 1500. In 1707 King Ram Singh kidnapped the Kachari raja, provoking Rudra Singha's Ahom army to sack Jaintiapur and briefly annex the kingdom; a Pnar revolt restored local rule. After three British subjects were sacrificed to Kali in 1832, the East India Company annexed Jaintia in 1835 and pensioned its raja.