The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.s3.15
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.s3.15
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Even in its limited area the Upper Burma state was loosely knit, towns such as Sagaing, Sagu and Taungdwingyi doing as they pleased. The confusion was something more than brigandage: it was the result of a racial movement, nothing less than the Shān migration into the plains of Burma. In 1364 the Maw (Mogaung) Shāns² took Sagaing and Pinya, carrying off the princes, the white elephants, and numbers of the townsfolk. To escape being driven off in Shān raiders’ slave gangs, the population of Upper Burma took to migrating to Toungoo.