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 100 PRE-HISTORIC AND HISTORIC ASAM it. The country must have been divided into pieces almost as a rule, and it is only on occasions that the most powerful among them combined many such pices and still rarely had sway over the country in its entirety. There are many more names of kings and queens of ancient Asam, lile Princess Haramail, about whom we yet know so little, and still leis about their lines T. KALITAS: EARLY VICTIMS OF THE TIBETAN AGGRESSION. While this work has been in the press, Where Inelia, China and Burma Meet, 1962, published by Thacker Spink & Co., Calcutta, makes an interest ing suggestion how the Kalita kingdom in Tibet became an early victim of Tibetan aggression. Like other craditions, however eloquent, the Kalita Kingdom had been treated as merely "fabulous and legendary", and no attempt whatsoever has been made for any investigation of any porth. One of such traditions mentioned by the learned author of Pure At Blind, 1910-11. ways that the sky over the Kalita Kingdom spread so low that a woman being vexed with it hit it with broomstick so that the sky went up to where it has been now. To read between the lines of this tradition, we may surmise that it remem bers the fact of the Kalita kingdom being high up in the mountainous regions and the Kalitas having come to the plain later. Capt. John Bryan Neufville, in his valuable contribution The Geo- graphy and Population of Azam (Asiatie Researches, Vol. XVI, 1828), mentions one Interesting historical incident to be noted: "In the reign of Rajeswor (1752-60 A.D.)...a sudden and overwhelming foi pour ed from the Dibong Inundating the whole villages and even districts such is described to be its violence, that the general features of the country and the course of the river were materially altered by it. This flood continued for about 15 days during which time various agricul- tural and household implements, elephant treppings and numerous arti cles belonging to a race evidently social and civilized, of pastoral and agricultural habits, were washed down in the stream." (pp. 335-36). WI.C.B.M. makes this thought-provoking comment on this point: "The Assamese believe, and Neuville confirms, that the Kolita Kingdom was washed away by the great flood during the middle of the 18th ce tury. Kolita [Kingdom) might have been damaged, but it was very unlikely that the entire kingdom was washed away by the flood.it was, most probably, wiped out by the Tibetans. It is to be noted that during the 18th century, Chinalaunched the Imperial policy of territorial the Tibetas side, territorial osasditement hund started its pernicious metivity thile in the south the Alons, the perantot poter of A were helpless to derpatch any inccone to the detached Hindu Kingdom of Kolita" (pp. 35-36). As to the exact geographical situation of the Kalite Kingdom, Neuf- ville wrote: "The country to the eastward of Bhot and northward of