| Name of District. | Value of Men. | Value ofBoys. | Value of Women. | Value of Girls. |
| Rs. | Rs. | | Rs. | Rs. | Rs. | | Rs. |
| Kamroop | 40 | 15 | to | 20 | 20 | 12 | to | 20 |
| Durrung | 20 | 10 | to | 15 | 15 | 8 | to | 12 |
| Nowgong | 20 | 10 | to | 15 | 15 | 8 | to | 12 |
The above is the estimated value of good castes, such as Kuletahs, Kewuts, Kooches. The price of the lower castes, denominated Joges, Doomes, Cachares, Boreahs, and Burahees, was one-third less.
In the present brief review of Assam it would be foreign to our object to attempt to describe the events of each reign; we confine ourselves, therefore, to a short list of the last kings of Assam. (See opposite page.)
The downfall of the Ahoom kings of Assam may be attributed to their becoming proselytes to the Hindoo religion in the reign of Jeydhoj Singh, A.D. 1654; to the religious persecutions of the Muttucks in the reign of Seeb Singh; to family dissensions and disputes, and the cruel treatment of Mohun Burjona Gohain. Rodur Singh left five sons, Seb Singh, Prumutta Singh, Mohun Burjona Gohain,
LIST OF THE LAST KINGS OF ASSAM.
| 1681, | A.D., | Gudhadhur Singh. |  |
| 1695, | | Bodur Singh. |
| 1714, | | Seeb Singh. |
| 1744, | | Prumutta Singh. |
| 1751, | | Rajeswur Singh. |
| 1769, | | Luckme Singh. |
| 1780, | | Gowree Nath Singh. |
| 1795, | | Kumuleswur Singh. |
| 1810, | | Chunderkant Singh. |
| 1817, | | Poorunder Singh. |
| 1818, | | Chunderkant Singh reinstated on the throne by the Burmese. |
| 1821, | | Jogessur Singh placed on the throne by the Burmese. |
| 1824–25 | | Assam conquered by the British troops, and the Burmese armyexpelled the province. |
| 1833 | | Poorunder Singh made Rajah of Upper Assam, April12th, 1833, and deposed by the British Government, Aug. 1835,A.D. |
Rajeswur Singh, and Luckme Singh. The third son, Mohun Burjona Gohain, being marked with the small-pox, was incapacitated to reign; and his younger brother, Rajeswur Singh, superseded him. By the evil machinations of the Bor Borowa, Rajeswur Singh was led to believe his brother, Mohun Burjona Gohain, was plotting against his government; and for the effectual suppression of this conspiracy, his brother was expelled the capital in the most ignominious manner, his ears having been slit and one of his eyes plucked out. It was, doubtless, as we have already remarked, from this severity that the prince Mohun Burjona Gohain, in the succeeding reign of his younger brother, Luckme Singh, was induced to rebel against his sovereign, and to join the Muttucks, hoping thereby to avenge his wrongs and gain the throne; but though temporary success attended the Muttuck insurrection, the Prince failed in realizing his ambitious projects, and hastened the extinction of the power of the Ahoom dynasty.
In no part of the world, perhaps, have such sanguinary customs and laws prevailed as in Assam, under the Ahoom kings. Many of their punishments were revolting to humanity. Criminals were whipped, put in the pillory, impaled; their limbs amputated, the nose, ears, and lips mutilated; the hair was torn out by the roots, eyes were plucked out of the sockets, and sometimes offenders were ground between wooden rollers, sawn asunder, or tortured with red-hot irons. A variety of other cruelties were practised with a relentlessness that but too vividly marked the barbarity of the rulers of those days, and rendered it a matter of sincere congratulation that a merciful providence shortened the period of their sovereignty, and placed the country in the hands of the British Government, in 1824–25.
NAGAS.