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===Military===
==Also see==
*[[:Category:Burma Volunteer Corps|Burma Volunteer Corps]]
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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.
*[[1st Burma War]] - 1823-24. View the [http://www.google.com/books?hl=en&uid=4345922024743697884 FIBIS Google Books Library]
*[[3rd Burma War]] - 1885.
*[[Second World War]]
===Also see===
*[[:Category:Burma Volunteer Corps|Burma Volunteer Corps]]
*[[British Army]]
*[[Indian Army]]
===Personal accounts===
*The book ''Old Soldier Sahib'' by Frank Richards, "an excellent read", is about the early 1900s in India and Burma and is mentioned in this Victorian Wars Forum [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=6187#p24669 thread]. First published in 1936, a reprint is available to purchase through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/1843425580 FIBIS Shop]. Also available at the [[British Library]]
*[http://www.newhavenpublishing.co.uk/publishing.html Details] of the book ''A Soldier’s Story-From the Khyber Pass to the Jungles of Burma: The Memoir of a British Officer in the Indian Army 1933-1947'' by John Archibald Hislop, edited by Penny Kocher 2010. There is a review by Richard Morgan of ''A Soldier’s Story'' in ''FIBIS Journal Number 26 Autumn 2011'', page 52. For details of how to access this article, see [[FIBIS Journals]]. The review may also be read in this [http://www.newhavenpublishing.co.uk/review.html link], along with other reviews. This book may be purchased through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/095658151X FIBIS Shop]. Also available at the [[British Library]]
===Trek Out of Burma in 1942===
Also refer ''Twentieth century impressions of Burma: its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources'' by Arnold Wright in [[Burma#Online books|Online books]] below
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