LITTLE more than a year ago a most beautifully illustrated, interesting volume on “Burma,” by Max and Bertha Ferrars, appeared, which has been most favourably received. And now we have a ...

this is our land. . . .” In its colonial heyday, Burma had been a joy and profit to the British Empire. It was rich in rice, teak, petroleum and jewels; its amiable people (according to one ...

The British colonized Burma in a series of three wars beginning in 1824. During their rule, the Arakan problem declined as the British allowed for a relative degree of local autonomy. From 1824 to ...

George Orwell's years in the British Raj ignited a firestorm of ideas that would shape the world’s most iconic warnings ...

Amitav Ghosh is a popular novelist, journalist, anthropologist and professor whose latest novel, The Glass Palace, addresses the relationship between India and Burma during the British colonial period ...

From the then British India capital of Calcutta ... to either India or Burma to remain as a British Crown Colony after India and Burma were granted independence. If these plans in particular ...