Aayu Publications

About the Book: ‘A Comprehensive History of the Koch kingdom’ is the first academic effort by a host of scholars and professors to bring out into light the total history inclusive of political, socio-economic and cultural narratives and analyses of the kingdom, preceding which, there is the story of its formation from 1496 to 1515. From 1515, the Koch kingdom continued for 435 years till the year 1949; and it had to undergo outside invasions, infringements and bifurcation in the long course of some centuries, but its existence remained to be a big phenomenon on account of its religio-cultural eclecticism in spite of its patronization of Hindu culture vis-a-vis the challenges of the Muslim Sultans and the Mughal subedars of Bengal. The Koch Kingdom survived for centuries from the medieval to the modern period through alliances, conflicts and understanding with the Ahoms, the Mughals, the Bhutanese and the British. The kingdom, inhabited by different ethno-racial groups of people, left behind indelible marks of socio-cultural and religious diversity, progress and unity in course of historical evolution of people in eastern India.