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==FIBIS resources==
*[[:Category:Burma images|Images of Burma]]
*FIBIS database:[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=class_detail&source_class=212 Burmese cemeteries] inscriptions and photographs
*"The Life of a Madras Artilleryman: The William Porter Letters" by Peter Bailey [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal Number 3 (Spring 2000'')]]. FIBIS members may read this article online.
: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
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 [http://www.tramway.co.uk/our-collections/26/library-catalogue-details/9592/rangoon-electric-tramways/ National Tramway Museum, Crich Tramway Village, Derbyshire] and [https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=6880675&DB=local Cornell University Library], Ithaca, NY, USA
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==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==
*[[:Category:Burma images|Images of Burma]]
*FIBIS database:[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=class_detail&source_class=212 Burmese cemeteries] inscriptions and photographs
*"The Life of a Madras Artilleryman: The William Porter Letters" by Peter Bailey [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal Number 3 (Spring 2000'')]]. FIBIS members may read this article online.
: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==
**Birth Register Book: Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue Rangoon. Published 1979 In English, available from 1896. 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.<ref>Google Books snippet search result from [http://books.google.com/books?id=A6I1AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Rangoon+Electric+Tramway%22+and+Supply+Company%22&dq=%22Rangoon+Electric+Tramway%22+and+Supply+Company%22&hl=en&ei=pVckTa-rDY-qcbaMwecB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBDg8 ''Joint international business ventures in the Union of Burma''], page 18 by U. Tun Thin 1959.</ref>
Also refer ''Twentieth century impressions of Burma: its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources'' by Arnold Wright in [[Burma#Online books|Online books]] below
