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*''Rough Pencillings of a Rough Trip to Rangoon in 1846'' by Colesworthey Grant 1853. With illustrations [http://www.archive.org/details/roughpencillings00granrich Archive.org].
*Tenasserim Provinces , [http://books.google.com/books?id=AbYBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA685 page 685] ''A Gazetteer of Southern India: with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore'' by Pharoah & Co 1855 Google Books.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=RegiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Hand-book for British Burma'']by George Edward Fryer 1867 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=r4JCAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Bhamo Expedition: Report on the practicability of re-opening the trade route, between Burma and Western China''] by Captain A Bowers 1869 Google Books includes
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=r4JCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA129 ''Preface to the Administration Report of British Burmah for 1867-68''] by Major General A. Fytche, C. S. I. Chief Commissioner , page 129
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerupperb01hardgoog Part 1, Volume 1] includes Chapter 10, Ethnology with Vocabularies [http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerupperb03hardgoog Part 2, Volume 1 A-K] [http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerupperb02hardgoog Part 2, Volume 2 L-P] [http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerupperb00hardgoog Part 2, Volume 3 R-Z]
*[https://archive.org/stream/andthatremindsme00coxo#page/n105/mode/2up "Burma"] page 71, ''And that reminds me 
being incidents of a life spent at sea, and in the Andaman Islands, Burma, Australia, and India'' 
by Stanley W. Coxon 1915 Archive.org. The author was appointed District Superintendent of Police in Kyaukse District, Upper Burma c late 1880s
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/wildsportsofburm00pollrich#page/n5/mode/2up ''Wild sports of Burma and Assam''] By by Fitz William Thomas Pollok and W. S. Thom 1900 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023503174 ''Scenes in Burma: An Album of 125 Views''] c 1900-1910? Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/burmapainteddesc00kelliala#page/n9/mode/2up ''Burma, painted and described''] Robert Talbot Kelly, 1905 Archive.org
*''Trials in Burma'' by Maurice Collis 1938 may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. The author was a member of the Civil Service in Burma, and his autobiography covers the years 1928-1931, particularly his role as District Magistrate of Rangoon, and the riots of 1930. Also see [[Maurice Collis]]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=BRUOLFj1TXgC&pg=PP1 ''Songs of The Survivors''], including the [http://books.google.com/books?id=BRUOLFj1TXgC&pg=PA7 Editor’s Preface] Google Books. Stories about the Goan community in Burma and the Trek of 1942
*[httphttps://gutenbergebooks.adelaide.netedu.au/ebooks02o/orwell/george/o79b/0200051.txt ''Burmese Days''], a novel by George Orwell, first published 1934. GutenbergeBooks@Adelaide The University of Adelaide Library. [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200051. txt Project Gutenberg Australia version] The author’s real name was Eric Arthur Blair and the novel is based on his experiences in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927. Orwell was stationed from December 1926 to June 1927 in the northern town of Katha, on which the fictional town of Kyauktada in Upper Burma in the novel is based. For more details, see [[George Orwell]].
*Many editions of the [http://archive.org/search.php?query=SOAS%20Bulletin%20of%20Burma%20Research%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research''] are available on Archive.org. The ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research ''offers current information on Burma research, activities, and resources at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, as well as information on international Burma research of relevance to Burma scholars in the United Kingdom.
**[http://www.archive.org/details/WilDijksReportOnTheTheArchivesOfTheDutchEastIndiaCompanyvocAs Wil Dijk's "Report on the Archives Of The Dutch East India Company (VOC) as they relate to Burma"] Published in the SOAS ''Bulletin of Burma Research'' 1.1 (Spring 2003). Archive.org
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