The transformative arrival of British rule in the years after the Anglo-Burmese War broadly coincided in the Naga Hills, as in Assam, with the arrival of Christianity. It was from neighbouring ...

in Burma (Myanmar), in one of the early episodes of the First Anglo-Burma War. Two other wars would be fought between the British and the Burmese in this century. From the beginning of the nineteenth ...

These, however, prove insufficient to stave off the British. 1826 - First Anglo-Burmese War: Burma loses Arakan, Manipur, Assam and Tenasserim to the British. 1852-53 - Second Anglo-Burmese War ...

The First Anglo-Burmese War started on this day and continued till February 24, 1826. It was the first of the three wars that were fought between the British and the Burmese empires in the 19th ...

A huge gold Buddha here was looted by a British naval office in the first Anglo-Burmese War, a manuscript shows King Thibaw being exiled to India. The British took over, bringing with them an all ...

Following the invasion and occupation of Assam and Manipur by the seventh ruler of the Konbaung dynasty, King Bagyidaw of Burma in the early 19th century, the British felt their province of Bengal ...