Khaspur

Khaspur became a royal centre of the Kachari kingdom in the plains of Cachar. Its rise followed the movement of rulers from the hill capital of Maibong toward the Barak valley. In the early eighteenth century an Ahom invasion under Rudra Singha drove King Tamradhaja southward, and Khaspur emerged as the setting of the Kachari court.

Suradarpa Narayan subsequently improved the capital, with brick palaces and temples constructed in different parts of the settlement. The surviving archaeological remains include a small unfinished brick dwelling whose walls preserve part of the royal landscape. Court building joined political authority with religious patronage, giving the lowland capital a character distinct from the earlier hill centre. The kingdom later came under increasing external pressure. Raja Gobind Chandra was killed at Haritikar in 1830, leaving no natural heir; British rule followed under the terms of an earlier agreement. Khaspur's royal history therefore connects a court's relocation and building programme with the eventual end of independent Kachari government in the plains.