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SHANGNYU VILLAGE
This village, ruled by the Chief Angh is a prominent village in Mon district. There is a wonderful wooden monument measuring 8 feet in height and 12 feet in breadth - believed to be constructed by heavenly angels. It is believed that the Angh threw an outcaste down a cliff to kill him as the person had committed some crime. But he could not be killed in this process. He rather started cutting down big trees and ended carving out objects from them.

The villagers could hear the voices and sounds of many people working together and the carvings at the end of the day were the output of many hands but when they approached the site as to who were working with him, they found him working alone. So it is believed that he was being helped in this work by heavenly angels.

Human beings and other creatures are carved on this monument. Memorial stone erections are also found in front of the Angh’s palace. History records that good and friendly relationship existed between the Shangnyu and the Ahom kings of Assam. Shangnyu Angh used to collect taxes from all the villages under his domain - extending from Sibsagar in Assam to the Wanchos in Arunachal Pradesh