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The beginning of Medieval Assam is marked by the rise of the Khen dynasty of the Kamata kingdom, established by Prithu in the western part of the old Kamarupa Kingdom, and the beginning of attacks by the Turks of Bengal. The Kamata kingdom, named after the capital at Kamatapur, was frequently attacked by the rulers of Bengal, and Alauddin Hussein Shah finally removed the last Khen king in 1498. But Hussein Shah and subsequent rulers could not consolidate their rule in the Kamata kingdom, and in the 16th century Viswa Singha of the Koch tribe established the Koch dynasty in the Kamata kingdom.
In the eastern part of the old Kamarupa kingdom, the Kachari and the Chutiya kingdoms arose, with portions controlled by the Bhuyan chieftains. In the tract between the Kachari and the Chutiya kingdoms, a Shan group established the Ahom kingdom. The Ahom kingdom in the course of time expanded into the Chutiya kingdom to its north and pushed the kachari kingdom to its south further south. After the death of Nara Narayan of the Koch dynasty in the late 16th century, the Kamata kingdom broke into Koch Bihar in the west and Koch Hajo in the east. Most of the 17th century saw the Ahom-Mughal conflicts for the control over Koch Hajo, which ended in 1682 with the defeat of the Mughals at Itakhuli.
After the Ahom kingdom reached its zenith, problems within the kingdom arose in the 18th century, when it lost power briefly to rebels of the Moamoria rebellion. Though the Ahoms recaptured power, it was beset with problems, leading to the Burmese invasion of Assam in the early 19th century. With the defeat of the Burmese in the First Anglo-Burmese war and the subsequent Treaty of Yandaboo, control of Assam passed into the hands the British, which marks the end of the Medieval period.
Source: Wikipedia
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