The undersigned humble representatives of the plains Garos as contradistinguished from their brethren in the Garo Hills. Our ancestors originally lived in the plains viz. in Amjonga, Damra, Derek and other places boardering on Assam and Bengal. Later on after the British occupation the boundaries of the district were demarcated for administrative purpose, as a result of which the plains portion where they lived were incorporated in the permanently settled districts of Goalpara, Kamrup and Khasi Hills and the district of Mymensing in Bengal. So they came to be governed under the new tenancy laws and became tenants of Bijni Raj and Mechpara Zamindar of Goalpara and Khasmehal tenants in Kamrup and Khasi Hills. In Bengal similarly the Garos on the boarders of Mymensing became tenants under the Rajas or Zamindars. The Garos clansmen were virtually autonomous and lived independently under their own Chiefs. The tract of lands in their occupation belonged to the Clans.
