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Unearthing Rajbari: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Pratapgarh Palace Ruins and Medieval Statehood in Patharkandi, Assam

Author(s) Mr. Teemothi Bhattacharjee
Country India
Abstract The political history of frontier polities along the medieval Bengal-Northeast India border presents a unique historiographical challenge. Most political histories of such frontier polities are largely constructed from vernacular chronicles and local memories, while epigraphic and archaeological evidence, where available, relates to earlier and long discontinued administrative layers. The Pratapgarh Kingdom, located in modern Patharkandi, Sribhumi/Karimganj district, Assam (and where the seat is in ruins and locally called Rajbari), illustrates such frontier polities. The political history of this Kingdom, from the thirteenth-century foundation legend, to the secession of Malik Pratap from Tripura in 1489, the brief zenith of Sultan Bazid, and the annexation of this Kingdom by the Kachari Kingdom, in the 18th century, relies almost exclusively on the early 20th-century chronicles of Achyut Charan Choudhury, in addition to colonial gazetteers and regional historiography. The only independent material evidence from the region, the 6th and 7th century copper-plate land grants by the Varman dynasty to Brahmin donees, pre-dates this chronicle by almost six centuries, and therefore cannot be related to it in a continuous manner. This paper will analyze the interplay of chronicles, administrative, and epigraphic sources in the case of Pratapgarh, and will argue that Rajbari, situated on the border, and named consistently in texts, but never been the subject of archaeological study, is a live case example of the limitations of borderland state-formation.
Keywords Barak Valley; medieval Assam; Patharkandi; Pratapgarh Kingdom; Rajbari; Sribhumi or Karimganj
Published In Volume 8, Issue 4, July-August 2026
Published On 2026-08-02
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i04.84988
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