 The Chutia people, through the Chutia dynasty, formed their kingdom in the present Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh and reigned from 1187 to 1673.They are an ethnic group of East Asian and South East Asian appearance and make one of the major and earliest section of the plain inhabitants of Assam to have migrated from Southern China.The seat of the Chutias when they were in the ascendant, appears to have been about Lakhimpur and the back of the Subansiri River.