Burma

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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.

Military

Trek Out of Burma in 1942

  • The full transcriptions by Mark Steevens of the IOR M8/57 files, Evacuees from Burma, are available on this site.
  • Burma from the website Koi-Hai
  • Songs of The Survivors, stories about the Goan community in Burma and the Trek. Page 7, the editors preface Google Books, probably Limited View.
  • Link to book reviews for White Butterflies by Colin McPhedran published 2002 and Through the Jungle of Death - A Boy's Escape from Wartime Burma by Stephen Brookes published 2000

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.

LDS (Mormon)

The LDS film catalogue has the following entries:

FIBIS resources

External links

The FIBIS Google Books Library
has books tagged:
Burma

Online Books

Other

  • Obituary of Reuben Solomon, born Rangoon 1921, from the Sydney Morning Herald dated 24 October 2009
  • This Wikipedia link mentions former De La Salle Christian Brothers Schools in Burma.
  • Spike Milligan,famous for the Goon Show, born in India, attended St Paul's De La Salle Christian Brothers School in Rangoon.
  • Link to a book review of Almost Englishmen: Baghdadi Jews in British Burma by Ruth Fredman Cernea 2007