Before the establishment of the Laur Kingdom, the area was a part of
Jaintia in the greater
Kamarupa Kingdom. When Guhak ascended the Jaintia throne, he married a princess from Kamarupa. Guhak split the Jaintia Kingdom into three for his three sons. He gave his eldest son, Jayantak, the northern hills which remained known as the Jaintia Kingdom. He gave his second son, Gurak, the southern plains which would be named
Gour Kingdom, and he gave his third son, Ladduk, the western plains which would become the Laur Kingdom. In 640, the
Raja of Tripura Dharma Fa planned a ceremony and invited five
Brahmans from
Etawah,
Mithila and
Kannauj. Keshab Misra, a Brahman from Kannauj, migrated to Laur where he established a Hindu kingdom. In the late thirteenth century, Laur faced a number of attacks from the neighbouring kingdom of Gour ruled by the Hindu king
Gour Govinda. A later Raja of Laur, Ramnath (descendant of Keshab Misra), had three sons with only one remaining in central Laur. Ramnath's second son, Durbar Singh became a Muslim and changed his name to Durbar Khan. Khan migrated to
Jagannathpur to build his own palace. He later seized his youngest brother, Gobind Singh's, territory in
Baniachong. Habib's grandson was Majlis Alam Khan, the father of Anwar Khan. A later zamindar of Laur, Abid Reza left Laur to establish Baniachong in the early eighteenth century, which would become the largest village in the world. Many followed Reza to Baniachong after Laur was burnt by the
Khasi in 1744. The Nawab of Bengal
Alivardi Khan is said to have granted 48 large boats to the Baniachong
zamindars. In one incident, hill tribes attacked the Laur thana, killing 20 people including the thanadar. In 1787, the Khasis of Laur also rebelled, plundering many parganas, such as Atgram, Bangsikunda, Ramdiga, Betal and Selharas, and killing up to 800 people. Before the troops of the Collector of Sylhet,
Robert Lindsay, could arrive, the Khasis retreated back to their mountains. ==Rulers==