Starting with the annexation of Tenasserim and Western Burma after the First Anglo-Burmese War, a steady stream of Indians moved to Burma as civil servants, engineers, river pilots, soldiers, indentured labourers and traders.
Dimulai dengan aneksasi Tenasserim dan Myanmar Barat setelah Perang Anglo-Burma Pertama, terjadi arus deras kepindahan orang India ke Myanmar sebagai pegawai negeri sipil, insinyur, pilot sungai, tentara, buruh kontrak, dan pedagang.