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*[https://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/icrc-archives/ ICRC Archives] in Geneva. The International Committee of the Red Cross has some records in respect of refugees from Burma. <ref>Milner, Rowland [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1999-09/0936457211 Family History Donald Mellican] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 04 September 1999. Retrieved 20 January 2015</ref>
====Historical books online====
*''Forgotten Frontier'' by Geoffrey Tyson, published 1945, may be viewed online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, including as a [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/528129 pdf download]. 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.
*[http://ourstory.info/library/4-ww2/Geren/diary.html ''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
===Historical books online===
*'''Also see [[Gazetteers#Burma|Gazetteers-Burma]] for more online Gazetteers'''.
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/81816 ''Early English Intercourse With Burma 1587-1743''] by D G E Hall 1928. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=w-4rBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1 Preview Google Books reprint of the 1968 edition]
*''Oriental Repertory'' by Alexander Dalrymple ''Volume 1'' 1793 and ''Volume 2'' 1808 contain a number of references to early Burma. See [[Scientific books online]]
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/4YMB6WYOH2UZRZX6KAM2F7GFJ52VCCOD ''A Concise Account Of The Climate, Produce, Trade, Government, Manners, and Customs, Of The Kingdom Of Pegu''] by W. Hunter A.M. Surgeon. Calcutta printed reprinted London 1789 Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek “The result of observations made on a voyage performed by order of the Hon. East-India Company”
*''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
:[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:354/#page/8/mode/2up ''Fifty years' reminiscences of India : a retrospect of travel, adventure and shikar''] by Colonel Pollock, Madras Staff Corps 1896. Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University. [https://archive.org/details/fiftyyearsremini00poll Archive.org version] In 1853 the author was appointed to the Madras Sappers and Miners in Burma.
*''The British Burma Gazetteer'': [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/lsidyv390a46e9#ark:/81055/vdc_00000003500F.0x000007 Volume I] 1880 itemViewer British Library. Also available through the [http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?menuitem=0&fromTop=true&fromPreferences=false&fromEshelf=false&vid=BLVU1 Main Catalogue] as a pdf download (enter title, and then select 'I want this'); [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/105579 Volume I] 1880 Pdf download, Digital Library of India ; [http://www.archive.org/stream/britishburmagaze02spea ''Volume II''] A-Z 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
*[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]
*''Routes in Upper Burma'' by A B Fenton 1894. [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/181518 Volume 1], [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/46887 Volume 2] Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India.
*''Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States'' 1900-1901 (Archive.org)
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerupperb01hardgoog Part 1, Volume 1] includes Chapter 10, Ethnology with Vocabularies [http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerupperb03hardgoog Part 2, Volume 1 A-K] [http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerupperb02hardgoog Part 2, Volume 2 L-P] [http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerupperb00hardgoog Part 2, Volume 3 R-Z]
*[http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=sea;cc=sea;q1=Calcutta;rgn=title;view=toc;idno=sea289 ''Tourist guide and shopping list : where to go, what to see, where to shop in Calcutta and Burma''] 1920 Southeast Asia Visions
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023498458#page/n3/mode/2up ''Burma Pictures''] c 1920 Archive.org
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/463075 ''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.*[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 basedwww. For more details, see [[George Orwell]]new.*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/501356 ''The Old Burma Road''] 1945. Pdf download, 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.
*[https://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/n645/mode/2up/search/Rangoon+riots Rangoon riots in 1930] pages 551-553, ''India in 1930-1931'' Government of India 1932 Archive.org
*''Trials in Burma'' by Maurice Collis 1938 may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, barcode 99999990848901, and is also available as a [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/528179 pdf download], 99999990796111. 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]].*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/207435 ''The Rebellion In Burma (April 1931-March 1932)''] 1932. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=BRUOLFj1TXgC&pg=PP1 ''Songs of The Survivors''], including the [http://books.google.com/books?id=BRUOLFj1TXgC&pg=PA7 Editor’s Preface] Google Books. Stories about the Goan community in Burma and the Trek of 1942
*[https://archive.org/details/burmaunderthejap017803mbp ''Burma under the Japanese : Pictures and Portraits''] by Thakin Nu, Prime Minister of Burma. Edited and translated, with introduction, by J.S. Furnivall 1954 Archive.org
*[http://www.new.dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/57419 ''Burma''] by D G E Hall 1950. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://ia802304.us.archive.org/18/items/Burma/TXT/00000006.txt Contents]. Also available in some formats on [https://archive.org/details/Burma Archive.org]
*Many editions of the [http://archive.org/search.php?query=SOAS%20Bulletin%20of%20Burma%20Research%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research''] are available on Archive.org. The ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research ''offers current information on Burma research, activities, and resources at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, as well as information on international Burma research of relevance to Burma scholars in the United Kingdom.
**[http://www.archive.org/details/WilDijksReportOnTheTheArchivesOfTheDutchEastIndiaCompanyvocAs 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
*''History of Services of Gazetted and other Officers serving under the Government of Burma July 1931 Vol I Part II'' . This Volume is titled ''Officers of Public Works Department''. It is available as a [http://www.new.dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/91147 pdf download] on the Digital Library of India.
*[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
*Novels**[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.
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