Accordingly, in 1823 the king of Burma send a large army into Cachar from to arrest Chourjit, Marjit and Gambhir Singh.

In March 1824, Lord Amherst, the then Governor General of British India declared war against Burma.

[6] The Khaki Ngamba mentions that on a Monday in either April or May 1829, Singh was passing through Sylhet whilst on a British expedition against the Khasis.

Sensing possible communal violence, the Faujdar of Sylhet, Ganar Khan, ordered the Hindu community to delay their festival by one day.

As a Hindu himself, Singh managed to defend the Hindus and disperse the Muslim rioters with his Manipuri troops.

Revered by the Hindu community as a defender of their faith, he enjoyed the procession and initiated the practice of celebrating Rothjatra and worshipping Jagannath in his own homeland of Manipur.