The book is a study on the socio-political as well as the cultural history of Manipur. Along with outlining the movement of the Indo-Aryan civilization towards Southeast Asia, and the formation of the Burmese empire, the kingdom of Manipur, and the Ahom dynasty, this publication also delineates the advent and consolidation of British imperialism in South Asia and Southeast Asia, and the ultimate fate of Myanmar (Burma), Assam and the politics of free India.