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*[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.
*''Mandalay to Momien : A Narrative of the Two Expeditions to Western China of 1868 and 1875, under Colonel Edward B. Sladen and Colonel Horace Browne'' by John Anderson 1876. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924083648836 Archive.org version], also available [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000059B74 British Library Digital  Collection] with rotatable images.
*[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
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*[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
*''The River of Golden Sand: being the Narrative of a Journey through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah'' by  Captain William Gill R. E.  [https://archive.org/details/riverofgoldensan01gill Volume I 1880], [https://archive.org/details/rivergoldensand02yulegoog Volume II 1880] [https://archive.org/details/cu31924023220217 Condensed [memorial<nowiki>]</nowiki> edition 1883] Archive.org
*''The River of Golden Sand: being the Narrative of a Journey through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah'' by  Captain William Gill R. E.  [https://archive.org/details/riverofgoldensan01gill Volume I 1880], [https://archive.org/details/rivergoldensand02yulegoog Volume II 1880] [https://archive.org/details/cu31924023220217 Condensed [memorial<nowiki>]</nowiki> edition 1883] Archive.org
*''Across Chrysê, being the narrative of a journey of exploration through the South China border lands from Canton to Mandalay'' by Archibald R Colquhoun, Executive Engineer, Indian Public Works. [https://archive.org/details/acrosschrysbeing01colq Volume I] 3rd edition 1883 (probably first published also 1883), [https://archive.org/details/acrosschrysbein02colqgoog Volume II] 1883 Archive.org. Also available [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003506A Volume I], [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035070 Volume II ] 1883 British Library Digital  Collection with rotatable images. Chryse (Chrysê) is the Greek short name of gold-producing Chryse Chersonesos (The Golden Peninsula) in the East Indies (Wikipedia)
*[https://archive.org/details/burmaafterconqu00geargoog ''Burma, after the conquest, viewed in its political, social, and commercial aspects, from Mandalay''] by Grattan Geary 1886 Archive.org  
*[https://archive.org/details/burmaafterconqu00geargoog ''Burma, after the conquest, viewed in its political, social, and commercial aspects, from Mandalay''] by Grattan Geary 1886 Archive.org  
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023461456#page/n5/mode/2up ''Correspondence respecting the Ruby Mines of Upper Burmah''] presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty 1887 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023461456#page/n5/mode/2up ''Correspondence respecting the Ruby Mines of Upper Burmah''] presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty 1887 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsroya74britgoog#page/n302/mode/2up  "On the Ruby Mines near Mogok, Burma"] by Robert Gordon, C.E with [https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsroya74britgoog#page/n367/mode/1up 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
:[https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsroya74britgoog#page/n302/mode/2up  "On the Ruby Mines near Mogok, Burma"] by Robert Gordon, C.E with [https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsroya74britgoog#page/n367/mode/1up 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
:[https://archive.org/stream/preciousstonesa03stregoog#page/n194/mode/2up "Burma Rubies"] page 153 ''Precious stones and gems, their history, sources and characteristics'' by Edwin William Streeter 6th Edition 1898 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/stream/preciousstonesa03stregoog#page/n194/mode/2up "Burma Rubies"] page 153 ''Precious stones and gems, their history, sources and characteristics'' by Edwin William Streeter 6th Edition 1898 Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005E37A  ''Report on the Railway Connexion of Burmah and China ... with account of exploration-survey by H. S. Hallett. Accompanied by surveys, vocabularies and appendices'']  by Archibald R Colquhoun 1888 British Library Digital Collection
*[https://archive.org/details/notesstatisticsi00burmrich ''Notes and statistics in four parts, compiled in the Office of the Chief Secretary to the Chief Commissioner''] Rangoon [https://archive.org/stream/notesstatisticsi00burmrich#page/n9/mode/2up Contents] 1893 Archive.org. Lists  the cantonments, railway stations, Telegraph offices, Volunteer Regiments etc.
*[https://archive.org/details/notesstatisticsi00burmrich ''Notes and statistics in four parts, compiled in the Office of the Chief Secretary to the Chief Commissioner''] Rangoon [https://archive.org/stream/notesstatisticsi00burmrich#page/n9/mode/2up Contents] 1893 Archive.org. Lists  the cantonments, railway stations, Telegraph offices, Volunteer Regiments etc.
**[https://archive.org/stream/notesstatisticsi00burmrich#page/n288/mode/1up 1891 Outline Map of Burma]
**[https://archive.org/stream/notesstatisticsi00burmrich#page/n288/mode/1up 1891 Outline Map of Burma]
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*[https://archive.org/details/inlandwatertrans00rang ''Inland Water Transport Board (Irrawaddy Section)''], published July 1952 or later. Archive.org. Information - Passage regulations, schedules etc. Includes a
*[https://archive.org/details/inlandwatertrans00rang ''Inland Water Transport Board (Irrawaddy Section)''], published July 1952 or later. Archive.org. Information - Passage regulations, schedules etc. Includes a
**[https://archive.org/stream/inlandwatertrans00rang#page/n82/mode/1up  Map of the Irrawaddy River] facing page 43 with [https://archive.org/stream/inlandwatertrans00rang#page/45/mode/2up "Alphabetical List of Stations"], page 45
**[https://archive.org/stream/inlandwatertrans00rang#page/n82/mode/1up  Map of the Irrawaddy River] facing page 43 with [https://archive.org/stream/inlandwatertrans00rang#page/45/mode/2up "Alphabetical List of Stations"], page 45
*Novels
====Fiction====
**[https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79b/  ''Burmese Days''] a novel by George Orwell, first published 1934. eBooks@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]].
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000041D18 ''The Orchid of Fô; or, a Tale from Burma'']. By S. C. M.  1896 British Library Digital  Collection.
** See [[Cecil Champain Lowis]]. Lowis was a member of the Indian Civil Service in Burma until 1912, who wrote more than a dozen novels set in Burma,  from 1899 until 1936.
*[https://archive.org/details/dacoitstreasureo00mooriala ''The Dacoit's Treasure, or, In the Days of Po Thaw : a Story of Adventure in Burma''] by Henry Charles Moore c 1897 Archive.org. With illustrations.
*[https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79b/  ''Burmese Days''] a novel by George Orwell, first published 1934. eBooks@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]].
* See [[Cecil Champain Lowis]]. Lowis was a member of the Indian Civil Service in Burma until 1912, who wrote more than a dozen novels set in Burma,  from 1899 until 1936.


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 08:23, 13 June 2017

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
Monograph on Ivory Carving in Burma by H S Pratt 1901 Archive.org.
Glass Mosaics of Burma with Photographs by Harry L Tilly 1901
Silk in Burma by J P Hardiman 1901
Silverwork of Burma with photographs by P. Klier by Harry L Tilly 1902
Wood-carving of Burma, with photographs by P Klier by Harry L Tilly 1903
Monograph on Iron and Steel Work in Burma by E N Bell (cataloged as Bett) 1907. Also available 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.

Fiction

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