Laur

Laur was a Hindu kingdom in the Sylhet region, based at Nabagram. Its western plains were said to have passed to Ladduk when Raja Guhak divided Jaintia among his sons around 630.

In the Mughal period Durbar Singh converted to Islam; his brother Gobind Singh also converted at Delhi, and in 1566 the Nawab of Bengal restored Laur to him as a feudal mahal. After the Khasi burned Laur in 1744, many inhabitants moved to Baniachong, founded by the zamindar Abid Reza. Laur remained a pargana under British rule, despite a Khasi rising in 1787.