Burma

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:

• Ava
• Bassein
• Martaban
• Mandalay
• Moulmein
• Negrais Island
• Pegu
• Prome
• Rangoon

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

• 1st Burma War - 1823-24. View the FIBIS Google Books Library

• 2nd Burma War - 1852-53. View the FIBIS Google Books Library

• 3rd Burma War - 1885.

Trek Out of Burma in 1942

• Koi-Hai website
• Trek Out of Burma Google Group
• 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

Railways

• Burma Railway

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.

LDS (Mormon)

The LDS film catalogue has the following entries:

• Burma ecclesiastical returns, registered 1937-1957.
• Registers and indexes of the Burma Office. It is unclear from the catalogue just what records these are. However, from the film notes, they appear to be indexes only (Z/M records).

FIBIS resources

• Burmese cemeteries inscriptions and photographs

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.

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

External links

	The FIBIS Google Books Library has books tagged: Burma

• Burma Wikipedia
• British rule in Burma Wikipedia
• Planet Burma, website of the Britain- Burma Society including Book World
• Online Burma/Myanmar Library, Burmalibrary.org, under the subject History has many categories including
  • Historical periods / British Colonial Period [1824-1948]
  • Economic History/Overseas trade/Trade with Europeans and the East India Companies
  • Historical documents/Memoirs and accounts of Burma by missionaries

Online Books

• Shipwreck of the Juno on the coast of Aracan in 1795 and history of Aracan. 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 Google Books.
• "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
• Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal: no 6: Report on the Tin and Other Mineral Productions of the Tenasserim Provinces 1852 Archive.org
• Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal: no 9: Report on the Teak Forests of Tenasserim Provinces with an Index 1852 Archive.org
• Rough Pencillings of a Rough Trip to Rangoon in 1846 by Colesworthey Grant 1853. With illustrations Archive.org.
• Tenasserim Provinces , page 685 A Gazetteer of Southern India: with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore by Pharoah & Co 1855 Google Books.
• Hand-book for British Burmaby George Edward Fryer 1867 Google Books
• The British Burma Gazetteer, Volume 2 A-Z 1879 Archive.org
• Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States 1900-1901 (Archive.org)
  • Part 1, Volume 1 includes Chapter 10, Ethnology with Vocabularies Part 2, Volume 1 A-K Part 2, Volume 2 L-P Part 2, Volume 3 R-Z
• Wild sports of Burma and Assam By Fitz William Thomas Pollok and W. S. Thom 1900 Archive.org
• Burma, painted and described Robert Talbot Kelly, 1905 Archive.org
• Twentieth century impressions of Burma : its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources by Arnold Wright 1910 Southeast Asia Visions "Contents" "Index"
• Experiences of a jungle-wallah by Hugh Nisbet 1910 Southeast Asia Visions. The author worked for the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation from 1879. The company logged teak in the Burma forests
• Burma Through The Centuries by John Stuart 1910 Archive.org
• Big Game Shooting in Upper Burma George Patrick Elystan Evans 1911 Archive.org
• A civil servant in Burma by Sir Herbert Thirkell White, 1913 Archive.org
• History of Upper Assam, Upper Burmah and North-Eastern Frontier by Leslie Waterfield Shakespear 1914 Archive.org
• Tourist guide and shopping list : where to go, what to see, where to shop in Calcutta and Burma 1920 Southeast Asia Visions
• Burma Pictures c 1920 Archive.org
• Songs of The Survivors, including the Editor’s Preface Google Books. Stories about the Goan community in Burma and the Trek.
• 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

Other

• Adoniram Judson, Ann Judson-Pioneer American Baptist Missionaries to Burma Wholesomewords.org
• Joseph Valu's World War 2 Burma Diaries
• Obituary of Reuben Solomon born Rangoon 1921, from the Sydney Morning Herald dated 24 October 2009
• De La Salle Brothers in Myanmar
• "Fire-Hearted Pebbles from Burma" by C.M. Enriquez, reprinted from Asia Magazine, October, 1930, Vol. 30, No. 10, pp. 722–725, 733. , is about the ruby mines of Burma and the Burma Ruby Mines Company. Palagems.com