WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The second war was caused by the British commercial greed as they began to exploit the vast forests of upper Burma for timber. They wanted to expand their market for the sale of cotton products as well. Lord Dalhousie was the governor-general of India (1848-56) who provoked this war.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Anglo-Burmese Wars were a clash between two expanding empires, the British Empire and the Konbaung Dynasty, that became British India’s most expensive and longest war, costing 5–13 million pounds sterling (£400 million – £1.1 billion as of 2019) and spanning over 60 years.

Detailed explanation-3: -Frontier clashes between British India and the Burmese Empire escalated into a full-blown war that lasted from 1824 to 1826.

Detailed explanation-4: -The war formally broke out on 5 March 1824, following border clashes in Arakan. The British reason for the war was, in addition to expanding British Bengal’s sphere of influence, the desire for new markets for British manufacturing.

Detailed explanation-5: -The British impact on this system proved disastrous, as Burma’s economy became part of the vast export-oriented enterprise of western colonialism. With the British-rather than the people of Burma-as the intended beneficiaries of the new economy, the traditional Burmese economic system collapsed.

Detailed explanation-6: -A Burmese invasion of Assam, north of Bengal, was seen as a threat to British India, and led to the first Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826). As a result of this war, the British acquired parts of Lower Burma (in southern Myanmar). Further wars in 1852 and 1885 led to the conquest of the rest of Lower Burma and Upper Burma.