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*[https://archive.org/details/ficuselasticainb00stre ''The Ficus elastica in Burma proper or a narrative of my journey in search of it : a descriptive account of its habits of growth and the process followed by the Kakhyens in the preparation of caoutchouc''] by G. W. Strettell 1876.  Archive.org [Natural rubber, or India rubber]
*[https://archive.org/details/ficuselasticainb00stre ''The Ficus elastica in Burma proper or a narrative of my journey in search of it : a descriptive account of its habits of growth and the process followed by the Kakhyens in the preparation of caoutchouc''] by G. W. Strettell 1876.  Archive.org [Natural rubber, or India rubber]
*''Burma Past and Present, with Personal Reminiscences of the Country'' by Lieut-General Albert Fytche, late Chief Commissioner of British Burma 1878. [https://archive.org/details/burmapastandpre01fytcgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/burmapastpresen02fytc Volume II]. Archive.org. Includes details of his career in India and  (mainly) Burma 1839-1871.  
*''Burma Past and Present, with Personal Reminiscences of the Country'' by Lieut-General Albert Fytche, late Chief Commissioner of British Burma 1878. [https://archive.org/details/burmapastandpre01fytcgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/burmapastpresen02fytc Volume II]. Archive.org. Includes details of his career in India and  (mainly) Burma 1839-1871.  
*[https://archive.org/details/landofwhiteeleph00vinc ''The Land of the White Elephant: Sights and Scenes in South-Eastern Asia : A personal narrative of travel and adventure in Farther India, embracing the countries of Burma, Siam, Cambodia, and Cochin-China. (1871-2)''] by Frank Vincent Jun. 1874  Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/landofwhiteeleph00vinc ''The Land of the White Elephant: Sights and Scenes in South-Eastern Asia : A personal narrative of travel and adventure in Farther India, embracing the countries of Burma, Siam, Cambodia, and Cochin-China. (1871-2)''] by Frank Vincent Jun. 1874 With numerous illustrations. Archive.org. Also available at [http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea:006/  Cornell University Library - Southeast Asia Visions] in an 1873 edition.
*[https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012884603 ''Our trip to Burmah. With notes on that country''] by Surgeon-General Charles Alexander Gordon, Army Medical Department, Principal Medical Officer, British Forces, Madras Presidency. 1877 Archive.org. A trip December 1874-February 1875.
*[https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012884603 ''Our trip to Burmah. With notes on that country''] by Surgeon-General Charles Alexander Gordon, Army Medical Department, Principal Medical Officer, British Forces, Madras Presidency. 1877 Archive.org. A trip December 1874-February 1875.
*[https://archive.org/details/narrativeoftrave00bradrich ''A Narrative of Travel and Sport in Burmah, Siam and the Malay Peninsula''] by John Bradley 1876. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/narrativeoftrave00bradrich ''A Narrative of Travel and Sport in Burmah, Siam and the Malay Peninsula''] by John Bradley 1876. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924075148001 ''A Thousand miles up the Irrawaddy : Burmah Proper''] by An Officer 1879  Archive.org.  Final pages missing. A journey August- October  1878.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924075148001 ''A Thousand miles up the Irrawaddy : Burmah Proper''] by An Officer 1879  Archive.org.  Final pages missing. A journey August- October  1878.
*''Sport in British Burmah, Assam and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills : with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the Northern Division, Madras Presidency ...''  by Lieut.-Colonel Pollok, Madras Staff Corps. (Fitzwilliam Thomas Pollok) 1879. [https://archive.org/details/sportinbritishb01pollgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/sportinbritishb00pollgoog Volume II] Archive.org
*''Sport in British Burmah, Assam and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills : with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the Northern Division, Madras Presidency ...''  by Lieut.-Colonel Pollok, Madras Staff Corps. (Fitzwilliam Thomas Pollok) 1879. [https://archive.org/details/sportinbritishb01pollgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/sportinbritishb00pollgoog Volume II] Archive.org
:[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:354/#page/8/mode/2up ''Fifty years' reminiscences of India : a retrospect of travel, adventure and shikar'']  by Colonel Pollock,  Madras Staff Corps  1896. Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University.  [https://archive.org/details/fiftyyearsremini00poll Archive.org version]  In 1853 the author  was appointed to the  Madras Sappers and Miners in Burma.
:[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:354/#page/8/mode/2up ''Fifty years' reminiscences of India : a retrospect of travel, adventure and shikar'']  by Colonel Pollock,  Madras Staff Corps  1896. Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University.  [https://archive.org/details/fiftyyearsremini00poll Archive.org version]  In 1853 the author  was appointed to the  Madras Sappers and Miners in Burma.
*''The Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon'' by Hume and Marshall 1879. With coloured plates. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/gamebirdsofindia01hume Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/gamebirdsofindia02hume Volume II]. [https://archive.org/details/gamebirdsofindia03hume Volume  III].
*''The British Burma Gazetteer'':  [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035010  Volume I] 1880  British Library Digital Collection.  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/105579 Volume I] 1880 Pdf download, Digital Library of India [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105579 Archive.org version]; [http://www.archive.org/stream/britishburmagaze02spea ''Volume II'']  A-Z  1879 Archive.org.
*''The British Burma Gazetteer'':  [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035010  Volume I] 1880  British Library Digital Collection.  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/105579 Volume I] 1880 Pdf download, Digital Library of India [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105579 Archive.org version]; [http://www.archive.org/stream/britishburmagaze02spea ''Volume II'']  A-Z  1879 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/b2475741x  ''The Practice of Medicine Among the Burmese''] by Keith Norman MacDonald, late Civil Surgeon of Prome. 1879. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/b2475741x  ''The Practice of Medicine Among the Burmese''] by Keith Norman MacDonald, late Civil Surgeon of Prome. 1879. Archive.org

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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.

FIBIS resources

Extracts from "The Private Letters of William Porter, Gunner, 3rd Batt., Madras Artillery (1826-1857) (Mss Eur. G128, British Library)", including time spent in Burma

Military

Also see

Trek Out of Burma in 1942

Following the Japanese bombing in 1942, half a million refugees attempted to walk to India. Many died.

Historical books online

  • Forgotten Frontier by Geoffrey Tyson, published 1945, may be viewed online on the Digital Library of India website, including as a pdf download. Archive.org version. The book is about the escape of refugees from Burma in 1942 and the help provided by the tea planters of Assam in assisting the refugees from north Burma into India.
  • Burma Diary by Paul Geren published 1943 In 1941 Paul Geren agreed to spend two years at Judson College in Rangoon, Burma, as a short-term missionary under the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. Following the Japanese bombing Professor Geren's classroom became a field hospital as he offered his services as an ambulance driver to Dr. Gordon Seagrave, the famed Burma surgeon. He later trekked to India. From the website ourstory.info

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. These records are part of the digitised India Office Records collection on the commercial website findmypast, and at least the N1 record indexes are available on FamilySearch (both datasets subject to a few exceptions).
  • 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:

Other

  • FIBIS blog: Book of the month. A comprehensive new edition of Burma Register of European Deaths and Burials, edited by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, published by BACSA, 2015. Covers burials up to 1948. 212pp
  • From the catalogue of the Centre for Jewish History, New York and available through the American Sephardi Federation:
    • Birth Register Book: Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue Rangoon. Published 1979 In English, records available from 1896 to 1979. In Hebrew, available from 1888
    • Death Register Book: Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue Rangoon. Published 1979. Available from 1888. In Hebrew with Sephardi Script.

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.[2]

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

Recommended Reading

  • The book Old Soldier Sahib by Frank Richards, is about the early 1900s in India and Burma and mentioned in Military reading list. The book was first published in 1936. There is a further 2005 edition, annotated by Krijnen and Langley, with many footnotes and illustrations. "Each page is annotated to give information on Frank Richards’s friends, his officers, the places where he served in India and Burma, dates, events and the language, for example".[3]
  • 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 link, along with other reviews.
  • The Brewing Storm – 1939-1941 (2013) and Burma Invaded - 1942 (2013), both by Major C M Enriquez, based on his diary. Review by Peter Bailey, page 52 FIBIS Journal Number 33 (Spring 2015)

External links

The FIBIS Google Books Library
has books tagged:
Burma

Other

Historical books online

Fifty years' reminiscences of India : a retrospect of travel, adventure and shikar by Colonel Pollock, Madras Staff Corps 1896. Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University. Archive.org version In 1853 the author was appointed to the Madras Sappers and Miners in Burma.
"On the Ruby Mines near Mogok, Burma" by Robert Gordon, C.E with Map showing the position of the Ruby Mines Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, Vol. 10, No. 5, May 1888, pages 261–275, Map page 324. Archive.org
"Burma Rubies" page 153 Precious stones and gems, their history, sources and characteristics by Edwin William Streeter 6th Edition 1898 Archive.org
Burma From The Earliest Times To The Present Day by J G Scott, 1924 is available as a pdf download on the Digital Library of India. Archive.org version.
Burma by Sir Herbert Thirkell White 1923 Archive.org. Volume 4 in the series Provincial Geographies of India.
A Burmese Loneliness: a tale of travel in Burma, the Southern Shan States and Keng Tung by Captain C M Enriquez, 21st Punjabis (Burma Military Police: 85th Burma Rifles) 1918 Archive.org.
A Burmese Wonderland : a Tale of Travel in Lower and Upper Burma by Major C M Enriquez, 3-70th Kachin Rifles, Divisional Recruiting Officer, Burma 1922 with a Map of Burma Archive.org
A Burmese Arcady, an account of a long and intimate sojourn amongst the mountain dwellers of the Burmese hinterland and of their engaging characteristics and customs by Major C M Enriquez, [3/70th] Kachin Rifles. 1923. Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University.

References

  1. Milner, Rowland Family History Donald Mellican Rootsweb India Mailing List 04 September 1999. Retrieved 20 January 2015
  2. Google Books snippet search result from Joint international business ventures in the Union of Burma, page 18 by U. Tun Thin 1959.
  3. Victorian Wars Forum