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172Dimasa FieldThe Dimasas, previously called the Kacharis, werethe original people of Assam.They belonged to the Bodogroup,which inhabited the hills between the BrahmaputraRiver and the border of Bhutan.Before the Aho m invasion inA.D. 1228, Kachari kings were established in upper Assam;but, follo wing a succession 0 f defeats by the Aha m, the ymoved to Dimapur at the foot of the Naga hills.They movedon to Maibang in the sixteenth century and on to Khaspur inthe Cachar district in 1750.embraced Hinduism in 1790 andThe Kachari kings formallywere recognized as being ofthe Kshatriya caste.The last Kachari king was murdered in1830, following a Burmese attack; and his kingdom was takenover by the East India Company.The Kachari people are of Mongolian stock. Theyspeak a Tibeto-Burman language and retain many distinctivecustoms.They are divided into different clans a nd hold toa tribal religion, with an extensive pantheon of village andhousehold gods. Village elders hold religious offices. Thecactuslike euphorbia plant is held sacred. Th e de ad areburied, not burned: and their funeral rites r e f'le ct a b e l i e-fin life after death.