Burma during the late fourteenth century was riven by lack of a powerful dynasty in the Irr a waddy delta. The ruling Toungoo dynasty, with its seat of power at Ava, were Burmans who were fighting with the Mons to the south and the Shans in the north. The Arakan kingdom in the borders with Bengal to the south west was not under the Burman rule.The Ahom dynasty founded by Sukapha in 1228 ruled Assam and the Ahom rule reached its apogee in the seventeenth century when India had a dominant Mughal dynasty ruling from Delhi. Aurangzeb the Mughal monarch ruled Bengal through his governors and the two powers are embattled from 1615. The Ahom Mughal wars began with the time of Jahangir and during the time of Aurangzeb the period of intense conflict began. Aurangzeb sent his General Mir Jumla to invade Assam in 1662 when Ahom King Sutamla fled from his capital Garhgaon. Peace was restored by a treaty with Mir Jumla in 1663.Aurangzeb also tasked Mir Jumla to deal with his rebellious prince Shah Shuja who took refuge in Bengal. Later Shah Shuja entered the Arakanese king and the Arakan granted him shelter. This enraged Aurangzeb who ordered Mir Jumla to invade the Burmese territory of Arakan. After the threat of Shah Shuja is over Aurangzeb turned his attention towards Assam and tasked his generals to retake Guwahati. The Ahoms registered a resounding Naval victory against Aurangzeb’s general Ram Singh’s forces at Saraighat in 1671. Ahom general Lachit Barphukan comprehensively defeated the Mughal Army, defeat that turned into a rout.U Aung Zeya a village chef of Moksobo took the name of Alaungpaya and founded the Konbaung dynasty in 1752. The Toungoo monarch were petrified as Manipuri cavalry was raging upon the Irrawaddy, the Mons were threatening the capital Ava itself and the Shans and Siamese kings were raring to take on the Burmese. This was when Alaungpaya dethroned the Toungoo king and rallied his commanders to give rise to a powerful Burmese kingdom. He began to attack the Mon and Shans and they were forced to accept his suzerainty. Next the kingdom of Ayutthaya (modern day Thailand) was attacked. Hsinbyushin, the third king expanded his kingdom and conflict started with Manipur. The sixth king in the lineage Bodawpaya began an expansionist policy towards the later part of the eighteenth century. During his reign the bordering areas of Kabaw valley a stone throw from Manipur and along the Chindwin river were swarming with Burmese troops. The rise of a powerful Burmese state carried the risk of conflict with Assam a possibility. He first occupied Arakan in 1784. The kingdom was known as Mrauk U. This brought the Court of Ava with it’s capital at Amarapura in direct contact with the British. A failed invasion of Siam in 1809 and the defeat of the Burmese ended their two hundred year rule. It was in 1816 that Badan Barphukan,a disgruntled Ahom governor of Guwahati approached Bodawpaya at Ava. Bodawpaya sent general Maha Minhla Minkhaung with eight thousand troops with Badan to occupy Assam. The Ahom Army wad defeated at the battle of Ghiladhari in 1817. The most powerful Ahom Minister Purnanda Buragohain and his son Ruchinath fled to Guwahati. Chandtakanta who was made king by Purnananda made amends with Badan Barphukan and made him Mantri Phukan or Prime Minister. Chandrakant remained king and the Burmese troops withdrew soon after the accession. But within a year after the Burmese left Badan was assassinated and Chandrakanta was deposed by a rival faction led by Purnanda Buragohain’s son Ruchinath. The rebels put Purandhar Singh as the new King. This event brought the Burmese back in 1819 and Chandrakanta was reinstalled. In that same year they took Manipur to give shape to their ambitious plan. This Burmese push towards Cachar and Jaintias made the British wary of the Burmese plans. This resulted in the first Anglo Burmese War in 1824.Three years before the first Anglo-Burmese war, Bagyidaw who came to the throne after the death of Bodawpays sent another expedition in 1821 under Maha Bandula assisted by his deputy Maha Tilwa with twenty thousand troops. The Burmese made Jogeshwar Singha as the next king. Chandrakanta continued to fight the Burmese from 1821 by a spirited display of patriotism and defeated the Burmese at Assam Chowki during the end of the year. Further engagements took place between Chandrakanta’s forces which comprise of Sikh soldiers in 1822. The final engagement in the middle of 1822 at Assam Chowki sealed the faith of Chandrakanta. After this he fled to the British Territory. This brought the British in direct confrontation with the Burmese and British troops ejected the Burmese from the Brahmaputra Valley in 1824. This first Anglo- Burmese war resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo in 1826, by which the Burmese handed over the Territories of Assam, Cachar and Manipur to the British.Maniram Dewan narrated the reign of terror of the Burmese, as they looted , pillage and plundered at will, the ferocity increasing after every other Invasion. The Asamar Padya Buranji unequivocally narrates the barbaric and terror brought about by the Burmese policy towards Assamese people.The Weissalisa Chronicles by two scribes Cha-ang and Thaomung who accompanies the Burmese army acknowledged the tremendous bloodshed their countryman unleashed in this land of “golden Weissali”. The Konbaung dynasty which lasted for one hundred and thirty seven years, the last King being Thibaw who was defeated in the third Anglo Burmese War in 1885by the British.The Konbaung dynasty came to an end. But the four-cuts policy of the Burmese Army known as Tatmadaw still follows the Konbaung policy of razing villages to ground, denial of humanitarian assistance like food to civilians, and depopulating villages by killing even the non-combatants. By this four-cuts approach Burmese commander Mingi Maha Bandula wrought havoc among all families in Assam according to renouned historian Gunaviram Baruah.Thousands are killed, maimed and burnt alive. Women are carries off like trophies of war and violated at broad day light. Places of worship like namghars in Assam were desecrated and people were huddled in hundreds to be burnt alive. The monument of Mingi Maha Bandula at the modern capital of Nayphidaw near Rangoon in Myanmar bears testimony to the reverential figure that Maha Bandula was held with by the Myanmar state.