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*[https://archive.org/details/viewofhindoostan3to4penn  ''The View of India Extra Gangem, China, and Japan''] by Thomas Pennant 1800. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/viewofhindoostan3to4penn#page/n17/mode/2up Contents]. [https://archive.org/stream/viewofhindoostan3to4penn#page/n313/mode/2up Index]. Volume III in a series ''Outlines of the Globe'' but sometimes catalogued as  Volume III of ''The View of Hindoostan''.
*[https://archive.org/details/viewofhindoostan3to4penn  ''The View of India Extra Gangem, China, and Japan''] by Thomas Pennant 1800. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/viewofhindoostan3to4penn#page/n17/mode/2up Contents]. [https://archive.org/stream/viewofhindoostan3to4penn#page/n313/mode/2up Index]. Volume III in a series ''Outlines of the Globe'' but sometimes catalogued as  Volume III of ''The View of Hindoostan''.
*[https://archive.org/stream/calcuttareviewv06unkngoog#page/n188/mode/2up "In Arakan A Century Ago"] page  175 ''The Calcutta Review (April 1907)''. Archive.org. Includes details of the life of John Christopher Fink, born 1796, who became a missionary.
*[https://archive.org/stream/calcuttareviewv06unkngoog#page/n188/mode/2up "In Arakan A Century Ago"] page  175 ''The Calcutta Review (April 1907)''. Archive.org. Includes details of the life of John Christopher Fink, born 1796, who became a missionary.
*[https://archive.org/details/ShortDescriptionOfTheMinesOfPreciousStonesInTheDistrictOf/mode/2up "Short Description of the Mines of Precious Stones, in the District of Kyat-pyen, in the Kingdom of Ava"] by Père Giuseppe D’Amato, reprinted  page 24 ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2004''. It was translated from Italian for publication in the ''Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal'' in 1833, and the original edition is  [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112084952057?urlappend=%3Bseq=113 pages 75-76] HathiTrust Digital Library. The author, also known as Padre Don José, was an Italian Catholic missionary of the Barnabite order who was in Burma c 1784 until his death in 1832. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101077789723?urlappend=%3Bseq=391 "Memoir of Giuseppe d’ Amato"] by Major H Burney, Resident at the Burmese Court dated 9 April 1832. Page 349 ''Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal''. v.1 (1832) HathiTrust Digital Library; [https://maristfathers.org.au/Documents%202014/1114%20Monica%20-%20Res%20Paper%201.pdf  Myanmar Catholic Church Found In Historical Records (1287-1900)] maristfathers.org.au.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9XJ6TqBfoFIC&pg=PR1 ''A description of the Burmese Empire Compiled Chiefly from Native Documents''] by the Rev. Father Sangermano  and translated from his MS by William Tandy 1833 Google Books. Father Sangermano was an Italian Barnabite missionary in Burma 1782- 1808 (see preceding listing) and died 1819. His manuscript was translated and published 1833, [https://archive.org/details/b29351753/page/n3/mode/2up 2nd edition 1884], with a Preface and Note by John Jardine. Archive.org;  3rd edition 1893 was published under the title [https://archive.org/details/burmeseempirehun00sangiala/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Burmese empire a hundred years ago as described by Father Sangermano. With an Introduction and Notes by John Jardine'']  Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofburmain00phay ''History of Burma including Burma Proper, Pegu, Taungu, Tenasserim and Arakan. From the Earliest Time to the End of the First War with British India''] by Lieut-General  Sir Arthur  P Phayre 1883 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofburmain00phay ''History of Burma including Burma Proper, Pegu, Taungu, Tenasserim and Arakan. From the Earliest Time to the End of the First War with British India''] by Lieut-General  Sir Arthur  P Phayre 1883 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.32059  ''History Of Burma''] by  G E Harvey 1925. (later reprint edition)  Full title: ''History of Burma : From the Earliest Times to 10 March, 1824, the Beginning of the English Conquest''. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.32059  ''History Of Burma''] by  G E Harvey 1925. (later reprint edition)  Full title: ''History of Burma : From the Earliest Times to 10 March, 1824, the Beginning of the English Conquest''. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
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*[https://archive.org/details/b21949062 ''Official Papers on the Medical Statistics and Topography of Malacca and Prince of Wales' Island and on the prevailing diseases of the Tenasserim Coast''] by T M Ward and J P Grant 1830 Archive.org. [https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b21949062 Wellcome Library version] with rotatable pages.
*[https://archive.org/details/b21949062 ''Official Papers on the Medical Statistics and Topography of Malacca and Prince of Wales' Island and on the prevailing diseases of the Tenasserim Coast''] by T M Ward and J P Grant 1830 Archive.org. [https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b21949062 Wellcome Library version] with rotatable pages.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=LR9DAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA175 “General Remarks on the Coast of Arracan”] by Captain Laws, H M S Satellite. Read at a meeting  13 June 1831.  ''The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Volume the First'' , published 1832. Google Books.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=LR9DAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA175 “General Remarks on the Coast of Arracan”] by Captain Laws, H M S Satellite. Read at a meeting  13 June 1831.  ''The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Volume the First'' , published 1832. Google Books.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=RWYRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Report on the Eastern Frontier of British India''] by  Robert Boileau Pemberton 1835 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.2453/page/n3/mode/2up ''Report on the Eastern Frontier of British India''] by  Robert Boileau Pemberton 1835 Archive.org. There are no maps included.
*''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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA9 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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA9 Google Books].
*‪[https://archive.org/details/travelsofdoctorm02nost ''Travels of Doctor and Madame Helfer in Syria, Mesopotamia, Burmah and other lands, Volume II''] ([https://archive.org/details/travelsofdoctorm01nost Volune I])  1878 Archive.org. Their travels commenced in 1835, and continued until 1840, when Dr Helfer was killed in the Andaman Islands.
*‪[https://archive.org/details/travelsofdoctorm02nost ''Travels of Doctor and Madame Helfer in Syria, Mesopotamia, Burmah and other lands, Volume II''] ([https://archive.org/details/travelsofdoctorm01nost Volune I])  1878 Archive.org. Their travels commenced in 1835, and continued until 1840, when Dr Helfer was killed in the Andaman Islands.
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*[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
:''A Short Account of an Expedition to The Jade Mine in Upper Burma'' by C H E Adamson 1889 from [https://gemology.se/chronology.html Gill's Historical Index To Gems And Jewelry Online] scroll down and click on the link, or [https://gemology.se/gill-library/gemjewelry/A_Short_Account_of_an_Expedition_to_The_Jade_Mine_in_Upper_Burma_C_H_E_Adamson_1889.pdf direct pdf]. gemology.se.
:[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
*[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

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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. Archive.org. 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
  • Through the jungle of death : a boy's escape from wartime Burma by Stephen Brookes published 2000. Archive.org Lending Library.

Railways and Tramways

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)

Note: Microfilm ordering services ceased 8 September 2017. Some microfilms have been digitized, these are shown with a camera icon, and the remainder are expected to be available online by 2020, refer individual microfilm catalogue entries. Please take this into account when reading the information below. . See FamilySearch Centres for more details.

The LDS film catalogue has the following entries:

Other

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

Burma Campaign Memorial Library, SOAS, London, and Digital catalogue

Historical photographs online

  • Photographs: Burma from a collection "ca. 1889, some photographs later” New York Public Library Digital Collection.

Historical books online

A Short History of India and of the Frontier States of Afghanistan, Nipal and Burma by J Talboys Wheeler 1899. Printed in London. Archive.org
India and the Frontier States of Afghanistan, Nipal and Burma by J Talboys Wheeler 1899 Printed in New York. Volume I, Volume II Includes a supplementary chapter in Volume II, but otherwise the text is probably the same.
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
A Short Account of an Expedition to The Jade Mine in Upper Burma by C H E Adamson 1889 from Gill's Historical Index To Gems And Jewelry Online scroll down and click on the link, or direct pdf. gemology.se.
"Burma Rubies" page 153 Precious stones and gems, their history, sources and characteristics by Edwin William Streeter 6th Edition 1898 Archive.org
Thibaw's Queen by H Fielding (later H Fielding Hall) 1899 Archive.org.
Also see Fiction, below.
  • An English girl's first impression of Burmah by Beth Ellis 1899 Archive.org.
  • Wild sports of Burma and Assam by Fitz William Thomas Pollok and W. S. Thom 1900 Archive.org
  • "Prisons of Burmah" page 171 Oriental Prisons: Prisons and Crime in India, The Andaman Islands, Burmah- China-Japan-Egypt Turkey by Major Arthur Griffiths, late Inspector of Prisons in Great Britain. C1900. Archive.org. Volume XII in the series The history and romance of crime from the earliest time to the present day. Published by the Grolier Society.
  • Monographs concerning Industry and Industrial Art. Mainly Pdf downloads, Digital Repository of GIPE. Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune]
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 Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
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.
  • Forty years in Burma by Dr J E [John Ebenezer] Marks 1917 Archive.org. He went to Burma in 1859 as a layman for educational purposes in connection with the Society for the Propogation of the Gospel [SPG] at Maulmein. He was ordained Priest in 1866 in Calcutta, and subsequently returned to Burma, as an educational missionary, particularly at St John's College Rangoon, retiring in 1900.
  • 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
  • Report on a visit to some salt workings in the Shwebo and Sagaing Districts, Upper Burma by F W Walker 1921 Digital Repository of GIPE Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune, India]
  • The Gentleman In The Parlour by W Somerset Maugham 1930 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Full title: The Gentleman in the Parlour : a record of a journey from Rangoon to Haiphong. "The story of several trips: One up the Irrawady river to Mandalay in Burma, then a trek across the Shan mountains into what was then Siam, after that down the Mekong to Saigon and up then up coast to Hue in Vietnam".
  • The Old Burma Road 1945. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: The Old Burma Road. A journey on foot and muleback. From the diary, notes and reminiscences of Doctor N. Bradley. The author spent many years in China as a medical missionary. This is an account of a journey taken in March, 1930 on the granite slab road along which, 650 years earlier, Marco Polo had ridden with his escort of Kublai Khan's horsemen from Yunnan-Fu to Bhamo.
  • Rangoon riots in 1930 pages 551-553, India in 1930-1931 Government of India 1932 Archive.org
  • Trials in Burma by Maurice Collis 1938. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. 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.
  • The Rebellion In Burma (April 1931-March 1932) 1932. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
  • The Geology Of Burma by H L Chhibber (Harbans Lal) 1934 Archive.org
The Mineral Resources Of Burma by H L Chhibber 1934 Archive.org. Both mirrors from Digital Library of India.

Fiction

  • The Orchid of Fô; or, a Tale from Burma. By S. C. M. 1896 British Library Digital Collection.
  • 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.
  • Palace Tales by H. Fielding (later H Fielding Hall) 1900 HathiTrust Digital Library. Traditional tales. For other books by this author, refer above.
  • Burmese Days a novel by George Orwell, first published 1934. 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 online book links, 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

  1. Milner, Rowland. Family History Donald Mellican Rootsweb India Mailing List 04 September 1999. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  2. Google Books snippet search result from Joint international business ventures in the Union of Burma, page 18 by U. Tun Thin 1959.
  3. Old Soldier Sahib: Edited by Krijnen, H J & Langley, D E Review by Maurice Johnson, westernfrontassociation.com, now archived.
    grumpy. Life of the British soldier in India, 1900-1914 Victorian Wars Forum 27 December 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2018.