Assam has been a veritable meeting pot of all branches of human race and of cultures of both hills and plains. Assam "One of greatest routes of migration of main kind" received waves of people of different strains, particularly the Indo-Chinese Mongoloids, pouring into this region from time immemorial,
The Chutiyas are one of the earliest inhabitants of Assam belonging to Tibeto-Burman branch of lndo-Mongoloid ethnic origin. The history of Assarn and the Assamese Chronicles of medieval period suggest that the Chutiyas established their Kingdom in the first half of thirteenth century in eastern most part of Brahmaputra Valley and seventeenth Principalities were under the Chutiya Kingdom till 1523 A.D. However during the region of Ahom king Suhunhmung or Dihingia raja in the year 1523 A.D. the Chutiya territory was annexed by the Ahoms and subjugate it. Subsequently the Chutiya subjects were given away by the Ahorns kings and they migrated to different places inside and outside the Ahom territory. At present the population of the Chutiyas can be counted 10 to 12 lakhs and their social and economic position is very poor.