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===Trek Out of Burma in 1942===
===Trek Out of Burma in 1942===
*[http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=485079 Koi-Hai website]
*[http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=485079 Koi-Hai website]  
**[http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=477224#forgottenfrontierbygeoffreytyson ''Forgotten Frontier''] by Geoffrey Tyson, first published 1945, may be downloaded as a pdf from the Koi-Hai website. This book is about the Trek and the help provided by the tea planters of Assam assisting people from North Burma into India.
*[http://www.angloburmeselibrary.com/trek-out-of-burma-1942.html Anglo-Burmese Library] - transcriptions and report. Also the list of internees.
*[http://www.angloburmeselibrary.com/trek-out-of-burma-1942.html Anglo-Burmese Library] - transcriptions and report. Also the list of internees.
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1999-09/0936457211 post] and this British Raj [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india-british-raj/2006-09/1158028990 post] are about a young boy, whose family perished in the Trek Out of Burma, who was given into the care of some Gurkhas and raised as a Gurkha. He was subsequently [http://www.worldwar2burmadiaries.com/dudleychettritraced.html traced], but had died. The India List post mentions Red Cross records in Geneva, probably those of the [http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/icrc-archives/index.jsp ICRC Archives]
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1999-09/0936457211 post] and this British Raj [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india-british-raj/2006-09/1158028990 post] are about a young boy, whose family perished in the Trek Out of Burma, who was given into the care of some Gurkhas and raised as a Gurkha. He was subsequently [http://www.worldwar2burmadiaries.com/dudleychettritraced.html traced], but had died. The India List post mentions Red Cross records in Geneva, probably those of the [http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/icrc-archives/index.jsp ICRC Archives]
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*[http://www.rothwell.force9.co.uk/burmaweb/BAF.htm  Burma Auxiliary Force] following separation of Burma from India in April 1937 rothwell.force9.co.uk
*[http://www.rothwell.force9.co.uk/burmaweb/BAF.htm  Burma Auxiliary Force] following separation of Burma from India in April 1937 rothwell.force9.co.uk
===Online Books===
===Online Books===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=OHWMG4_nOQwC&pg=PA259 Shipwreck] of the Juno on the coast of Aracan in 1795 and [http://books.google.com/books?id=OHWMG4_nOQwC&pg=PA293  history] of Aracan. Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=OHWMG4_nOQwC&pg=PA259 Shipwreck] of the Juno on the coast of Aracan in 1795 and [http://books.google.com/books?id=OHWMG4_nOQwC&pg=PA293  history] of Aracan. Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=RWYRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Report on the Eastern Frontier of British India''] by  Robert Boileau Pemberton 1835 Google Books
*''Travels in south-eastern Asia, embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China: with notices of numerous missionary stations, and a full account of the Burman Empire; with dissertations, tables, etc'' by Howard Malcolm 2nd edition 1839 2 volumes in one. Book 2  with index follows page 276  of Book 1 [http://books.google.com/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA9 Google Books].
*''Travels in south-eastern Asia, embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China: with notices of numerous missionary stations, and a full account of the Burman Empire; with dissertations, tables, etc'' by Howard Malcolm 2nd edition 1839 2 volumes in one. Book 2  with index follows page 276  of Book 1 [http://books.google.com/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA9 Google Books].
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lIzSAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA219 "Notes on Arakan by the late Rev GS Comstock, American Baptist Missionary in that country 1834-1844"] from ''Journal of the American Oriental Society Volume 1, No 3 1847'', page 219 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lIzSAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA219 "Notes on Arakan by the late Rev GS Comstock, American Baptist Missionary in that country 1834-1844"] from ''Journal of the American Oriental Society Volume 1, No 3 1847'', page 219 Google Books

Revision as of 12:16, 28 October 2011

Burma (now officially called the Union of Myanmar) was a province of the Bengal Presidency until the establishment of the Burma Office in 1937 after which it was administered separately until independence in 1948.

Geography

Places in Burma:

History

The British annexed parts of Burmese territory after their victory in the 1st Burma War. Lower Burma was annexed in 1852 after the 2nd Burma War. In 1862, these territories were designated the minor province of British India, British Burma. After the 3rd Burma War in 1885, Upper Burma was annexed, and the following year, the province of Burma in British India was created, becoming a major province in 1897. This arrangement lasted until 1937, when Burma began to be administered separately by the Burma Office and the Secretary of State for India and Burma. Burma achieved independence from British rule on January 4, 1948.

Military

Trek Out of Burma in 1942

  • Koi-Hai website
    • Forgotten Frontier by Geoffrey Tyson, first published 1945, may be downloaded as a pdf from the Koi-Hai website. This book is about the Trek and the help provided by the tea planters of Assam assisting people from North Burma into India.
  • Anglo-Burmese Library - transcriptions and report. Also the list of internees.
  • This India List post and this British Raj post are about a young boy, whose family perished in the Trek Out of Burma, who was given into the care of some Gurkhas and raised as a Gurkha. He was subsequently traced, but had died. The India List post mentions Red Cross records in Geneva, probably those of the ICRC Archives
  • This India List post and this India List post are about books about the Trek Out of Burma. Refer also Planet Burma Book World below.
  • The Elephant Man is about the rescue of refugees by Gyles Mackrell , an Assam tea planter. He mounted an operation to save refugees who were trapped by flooded rivers at the border with India using the only means available to get them across - elephants. Includes YouTube film clip from the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge
  • The story of Sam and Marg Acomb The War period commences page 28. In 1941 the author escaped from Thailand to Rangoon where he joined the Army in Burma Reserve of Officers. In 1942 he trekked for three weeks out of Burma to India. Subsequently he was assigned as Intelligence Officer in Dibrugahr Assam, Deolali, Ceylon and Bangkok(1944) until he was discharged in August 1946. BYU Digital Collections

Railways

Records

British Library

  • Baptisms, Marriages and Burials for Burma are included in the Bengal returns (N/1) up to 1936. Records for 1937 to 1959 are in a separate series N/10 with a single index for Burma BMBs.
  • Burma Gazette IOR/V/11/3406-3694 1875-1952.This publication was one of the Government Gazettes which were the official newspapers of the Government of India and its provincial governments where information, such as appointments, promotions,etc was 'gazetted'.

LDS (Mormon)

The LDS film catalogue has the following entries:

FIBIS resources

Economy and business

The leading British firms in Burma were the Burma Oil Company, which controlled the oil industry, Steel Brothers and Company Limited, which worked in oil, rice and general trading business, the Rangoon Electric Tramway and Supply Company Limited, the Anglo-Burma Tin Company , and the Burma Corporation Limited, which operated the Bawdwin Mines.[1]

The book Electric Traction in the Burmese Capital: A History of the Rangoon Electric Tramway and Supply Company, Limited by Robert P Sechler 1981 is available at the National Tramway Museum, Crich Tramway Village, Derbyshire and Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY, USA

Also refer Twentieth century impressions of Burma: its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources by Arnold Wright in Online books below

Also see

References

  1. Google Books snippet search result from Joint international business ventures in the Union of Burma, page 18 by U. Tun Thin 1959.

External links

The FIBIS Google Books Library
has books tagged:
Burma

Online Books

Other