Tengapani

The Tengapani flows through the country near Sadiya, on the eastern edge of the Brahmaputra valley. In the eighteenth century Tai Khamti migrants from the country east of Assam settled along its banks with the permission of the Ahom rulers. The settlement grew as others joined it, and by the end of the century Khamti chiefs had established authority at Sadiya amid the disturbances affecting the Ahom kingdom. Their settlement at Tengapani formed part of the history of migration across the eastern hills.