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*[https://archive.org/details/39002086291359.med.yale.edu ''The Burma Medical Manual : containing rules for the management of charitable hospitals and dispensaries and for the guidance of medical officers under the Government of Burma ; issued under authority''] 1898 Archive.org
* ''Burma'' by D G E Hall 1950. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57419 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57419/page/n7/mode/1up Contents].
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==FIBIS resources==
*[[:Category:Burma images|Images of Burma]]
*FIBIS database:[httphttps://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=class_detaillist_sources&source_class=212 Burmese cemeteriesCemeteries] 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
*FIBIS database:[https://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=412 Burma Reserve of Officers (ABRO) 1940 - 1947] Lists of ABRO Appointments, Rewards, Relinquishments and Rangoon Port Defence Volunteers
==Military==
Following the Japanese bombing in 1942, half a million refugees attempted to walk to India. Many died.
*[http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=485079 Koi-Hai website]
*[httphttps://www.angloburmeselibrary.com/treknon-outmembers-of-burma-1942area.html Anglo-Burmese Library] - transcriptions and report. Also the list of internees.
*''Exodus from Burma, 1941-42''; a Memoir by Captain Nadir S. Tyabji [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=30&paged=2 Parts 1 and 2] , scroll down for Part 1, [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=30 Parts 3-12] in reverse order, scroll to the bottom for Part 3. amitavghosh.com. The author was appointed as Assistant to the Agent of the Government of India in Burma, and was subsequently in charge of arrangements for the refugees, predominantly Indian, trekking out of Burma.
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/41/a3338741.shtml "Burma before the Japanese Invasion"] and [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/04/a3338804.shtml "Diary of the Trek out of Burma 1942"] by Jose Johnson with an earlier memoir [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/16/a3335816.shtml "My Journey to Burma 1940 by Flying Boat"] bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar
====Historical books online====
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528129 ''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.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160401152039/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, now archived.
*[https://archive.org/details/throughjungleofd0000broo ''Through the jungle of death : a boy's escape from wartime Burma''] by Stephen Brookes published 2000. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/flightbyelephant0000mart_q9k7 ''Flight by elephant : the untold story of World War Two's most daring jungle rescue''] by Andrew Martin 2013. [https://archive.org/details/flightbyelephant0000mart_u4u2/mode/2up 2nd file]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. Tea planter Gyles Mackrell mounted an epic rescue mission, with the aid of a herd of elephants and their mahouts.
==Records==
===British Library===
*[[Church records|Baptisms, Marriages and Burials]] for Burma are included in the [[Bengal Ecclesiastical Returns Index|Bengal returns]] ('''N/1''') up to 1936(with only brief details for baptisms from 1923). Records for 1937 to 1959 1957 for Burma are in a separate series '''N/10''' with a single index for Burma BMBs. These All these records (subject to a few exceptions) are part of the digitised India Office Records collection on the commercial website [[findmypastFindmypast]]where however due to the dates of the N/10 record series, for privacy reasons only minimal details may be displayed for baptisms from 1937 and marriages from 1938, although death records should display standard details, as should 1937 marriages (as at least the N1 2023/03/13). The N/1 record indexes are available on [[IGI|FamilySearch]] (both datasets subject , but those for N/10 are not. If you want a full record from the N/10 series, for most people the only option will be to request a few exceptions)copy from the [[British Library]].*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorv_4-2&cid=1-1-8#1-1-8 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 Microfilms have been digitized, these are shown with a camera icon, and the remainder are expected to be available online by 2020digitised, 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:
*[https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/154974 Burma ecclesiastical returns, registered 1937-1957]. Note: These are the N/10 records referred to above, from the British Library, now available on [[findmypastFindmypast]], but most, due to privacy reasons will contain very little detail. The N/10 records are held by FamilySearch and have been digitised, but due to the date range, are viewable only as a microfilm, likely to be available only at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.*[https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1184606 Registers and indexes of the Burma Office]. It is unclear from the catalogue just what records these are. However, from the film notes, they appear to be indexes only (Z/M records). Available at [[FamilySearch Centres]] and FamilySearch Affiliate libraries.*[https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/204135 Extracts from St. Andrew's Outlook, quarterly messenger of the Presbyterian Churches in Malaya, Sumatra, Burma and Siam : marriages and deaths, March 1914 - July 1951] Microfilm number 87992. Available at [[FamilySearch Centres]] and FamilySearch Affiliate libraries.*[https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/265600 Extracts from Scots Kirk', the church magazine of the Presbyterian Church in Signal Pagoda Road, Rangoon, Burma : baptisms, marriages and deaths, June 1930-June 1941] Microfilm number 87993. Available at [[FamilySearch Centres]] and FamilySearch Affiliate libraries.*[https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/81844 Microfilm of manuscript vol. of St. John the Baptist Armenian Apostolic Church in Rangoon, Burma. Births and baptisms, 1867-1980; marriages, 1858-1981; deaths, 1857-1957]. Text in Armenian. Microfilm number 1356948 Item 2. Digitised but due to the date range, currently (2021/03/25) only accessible by microfilm likely only at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
===Other===
*"Browsing Through a Treasure House: The Literature of the Burma Campaign" by Gordon Graham. Part of [[Second World War|WW2]]. From the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 2011 [http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/11668/1/BCML-W.G.Graham2011.pdf pdf], [https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/11668 Abstract]
:[https://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/collections/rare_books/bcml/ Burma Campaign Memorial Library, SOAS, London], and [https://digital.soas.ac.uk/bcml Digital catalogue]
*[https://www2.irrawaddy.com/article.php?art_id=3533&page=1 ''Chronology of the Press in Burma''] May 1, 2004 ''The Irrawaddy''.
===Maps===
*[https://zenodo.org/record/3594450 Maps of Burma] from [https://zenodo.org/communities/old-survey-of-india-maps Old Survey of India Maps] zenodo.org. "A set of about 250 maps of Burma produced by the Survey of India before and during the Second World War". Also see [[Maps]].
*[https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/burma/ Burma 1:250,000. Series U542, U.S. Army Map Service, 1955-] lib.utexas.edu
===Historical photographs online===
*[https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/album-of-photographs-of-burma-india-and-egypt#/?tab=about Photographs: Burma] from a collection "ca. 1889, some photographs later” New York Public Library Digital Collection.
===Historical books online===
*'''Also see [[Gazetteers#Burma|Gazetteers-Burma]] for more online Gazetteers'''.
*[https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28Report+on+the+Administration+of++Burma+%29&sort=date ''Report on the Administration of Burma''] multiple volumes from 1864-65 to 1935-36. Title varies slightly over time, also including ''Province of British Burma, British Burma'' and ''Lower Burma''. Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/NicoloDeContisEarlyFifteenthCenturyTravelsInTheEast "Early Fifteenth Century Travels in the East: Nicolò de' Conti of Venice"]. From the 1579 translation by John Frampton, with notes by Kennon Breazeale. ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research'' Vol 2, No 2 Autumn 2004. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/EditorialIntroductionToNicolDeContisAccountByKennonBreazeale "Editorial Introduction to Nicolò de' Conti's s Account"] by Kennon Breazeale from the same ''SOAS Bulletin''. Archive.org. For additional online accounts of Nicolò de' Conti, see [[Travel accounts online]].
*[https://archive.org/details/ralphfitchenglan00rylerich ''Ralph Fitch, England's Pioneer to India and Burma. His Companions and Contemporaries. With his Remarkable Narrative Told in his Own Words''] by J. Horton Ryley. 1899 Archive.org. Fitch was active 1583-1606.
* ''Early English Intercourse With Burma 1587-1743'' by D G E Hall 1928. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81816 Archive.org version], originally from the 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]
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WK8-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA55 "Pegu, Ava and Arracan"] page 55 ''The New Universal Traveller: Containing a Full and Distinct Account of All the Empires, Kingdoms, and States, in the Known World'' by J Carver 1779 Google Books
*''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://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/populardescripti00cond ''The Modern Traveller: A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe: Birmah, Siam, and Anam''] 1826 Archive.org. With a [https://archive.org/stream/populardescripti00cond#page/n7/mode/1up Map of Indo-China]. The author is catalogued as Josiah Conder.
*[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(same file).
*[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://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.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZC-R1-nLZqMC&pg=PA601 "An Account of some of the Petty States lying north of the Tenasserim Provinces: drawn up from the Journals and Reports of D Richardson … Surgeon to the Commissioner of the Tenasserim Provinces"] by E A Blundell, Commissioner, page 601-625, and [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZC-R1-nLZqMC&pg=PA688 pages 688-707] ''Journal of the Asiatic Society'', October and November 1836. Includes Journal items from 1829 (Part 1), and 1834 (Part 2). 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.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lIzSAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA219 "Notes on Arakan by the late Rev GS Comstock, American Baptist Missionary in that country 1834-1844"] from ''Journal of the American Oriental Society Volume 1, No 3 1847'', page 219 Google Books.*''The Maulmain Almanac'' for the years 1850, 1852 and 1853. See [[Moulmein]]. Includes information for a wider area than the town/city of Moulmein.**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=7TBCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA22 "Tables of Money, Weights and Measures"] page 22, 1850 edition Google Books.:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=3P0nrg96DQUC&pg=PR1 ''Tenasserim and Martaban Almanac & Directory for 1857''] Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromr00indgoog#page/n7/mode/1up ''Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal: no 6: Report on the Tin and Other Mineral Productions of the Tenasserim Provinces''] 1852 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromr00indgoog#page/n93/mode/1up ''Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal: no 9: Report on the Teak Forests of Tenasserim Provinces''] with an [http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromr00indgoog#page/n375/mode/1up Index] 1852 Archive.org
*''Rough Pencillings of a Rough Trip to Rangoon in 1846'' by Colesworthey Grant 1853. With illustrations [http://www.archive.org/details/roughpencillings00granrich Archive.org]. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t1gh9h10n?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 HathiTrust Digital Library] where the images can be rotated.:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082439443?urlappend=%3Bseq=93 ''Sketches of Oriental Heads''] by Colesworthey Grant c 1846-1850 HathiTrust Digital Library. (These appear as the second half of a book file ''Portrait sketches of the public characters of Calcutta'' by Colesworthey Grant). Includes images of ethnic groups such as Taline [Mon], Karen and Shan.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CFsyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Anglo-Burmese Hand-book: Or, Guide to a Practical Knowledge of the Burmese Language''] by Dormer Augustus Chase, Lieut. 64th Regiment Bengal N.I. and Officiating Assistant Commissioner T.P. 1852 Google Books [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2016/04/the-anglo-burmese-handbook.html "The Anglo-Burmese Handbook"] 28 April 2016 British Library Untold lives blog.
*[https://archive.org/details/myamma00unkngoog ''Myamma : a Retrospect of Life and Travel in Lower Burmah''] by Deputy Surgeon General C T Paske, [Charles Thomas], Late of the Bengal Army 1893 Archive.org. Also published with the title [https://archive.org/details/lifetravelinlowe00paskuoft ''Life and Travel in Lower Burmah, a Retrospect''] Archive.org. The author joined the Bengal Medical Service in August 1852, and was posted to Burma for about two years c 1853-1855, returned to India for four years, and was then reposted to Burma c 1859 for a few more years.
*[https://archive.org/details/ficuselasticainb00stre ''The Ficus elastica in Burma proper or a narrative of my journey in search of it : a descriptive account of its habits of growth and the process followed by the Kakhyens in the preparation of caoutchouc''] by G. W. Strettell 1876. Archive.org [Natural rubber, or India rubber]
*''Burma Past and Present, with Personal Reminiscences of the Country'' by Lieut-General Albert Fytche, late Chief Commissioner of British Burma 1878. [https://archive.org/details/burmapastandpre01fytcgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/burmapastpresen02fytc Volume II]. Archive.org. Includes details of his career in India and (mainly) Burma 1839-1871.
*[https://archive.org/details/landofwhiteeleph00vinc ''The Land of the White Elephant: Sights and Scenes in South-Eastern Asia : A personal narrative of travel and adventure in Farther India, embracing the countries of Burma, Siam, Cambodia, and Cochin-China. (1871-2)''] by Frank Vincent Jun. 1874 With numerous illustrations. Archive.org. Also available at [httphttps://seasiavisionsdigital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea:006/ sea006 Cornell University Library - Southeast Asia Visions] in an 1873 edition.
*[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/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
:[httphttps://seasiavisionsdigital.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:354/#pagecatalog/8/mode/2up sea354 ''Fifty years' reminiscences of India : a retrospect of travel, adventure and shikar''] by Colonel PollockPollok, 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 Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon'' by Hume and Marshall 1879. With coloured plates. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/gamebirdsofindia01hume Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/gamebirdsofindia02hume Volume II]. [https://archive.org/details/gamebirdsofindia03hume Volume III].
*''The British Burma Gazetteer'': [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035010 Volume I] 1880 British Library Digital Collection. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105579 Volume 1 Archive.org version] 1880, mirror from Digital Library of India; [http://www.archive.org/stream/britishburmagaze02spea ''Volume II''] A-Z 1879 Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/stream/notesstatisticsi00burmrich#page/n288/mode/1up 1891 Outline Map of Burma]
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-412337031 ''Henry S. King & Co.'s Hand book for homeward-bound travellers from India, Australia and the East''] 1893 National Library of Australia. Includes the telegraph code to be used, as words or phrases more than ten letters are charged double.
*''Routes in Upper Burma'' by A B Fenton 1894. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.181518 Volume 1 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.46887 Volume 2 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: ''Routes in Upper Burma, including the Chin Hills and Shan States, to which are added a number of routes leading from Lower Burma and Siam into those districts''. Compiled for the Quartermaster-General of the Madras Army.
*''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]
*[https://archive.org/stream/andthatremindsme00coxo#page/n105/mode/2up "Burma"] page 71, ''And that reminds me
being incidents of a life spent at sea, and in the Andaman Islands, Burma, Australia, and India''
by Stanley W. Coxon 1915 Archive.org. The author was appointed District Superintendent of Police in Kyaukse District, Upper Burma c late 1880s
*[https://archive.org/details/amongpagodasfair00gasc ''Among Pagodas and Fair Ladies: an account of a tour through Burma''] by Gwendolen Trench Gascoigne 1896 Archive.org
*[http://seasiavisionsreader.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:282docviewer/digital?id=sea282#page/10/mode/2up ''Wanderings in Burma''] by George W Bird 1897 “South East Asia Visions” Cornell University**[http://seasiavisionsreader.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:282docviewer/digital?id=sea282#page/113/mode/1up Names of the English [Church of England<nowiki>]</nowiki> churches], page 87:[https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11710026_000/mode/2up Archive.org version]
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034F0E ''Picturesque Burma, Past and Present''] by Mrs Ernest Hart 1897. British Library Digital Collection. With illustrations.
*[https://digital.soas.ac.uk/n_burmanews ''Rangoon Diocesan Association: Quarterly Paper''] Printed in London. (Church of England, "Affiliated to S.P.G." (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts)). Quarterly issues from 1897 to 1927 when it was superseded by ''Burma News'' available online to 1970. SOAS Digital Library. London University.The issue for June 1898 listed Clergy and English Missionaries throughout Burma. If the link is not permanent [http://digital.soas.ac.uk Search] using keyword Rangoon or Burma News.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173166/page/n1 ''The Soul Of A People''] by H Fielding Hall [Harold] 1909 edition, first published 1898. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. It is indicated elsewhere that he was a senior lawyer in the Civil Service in Burma.
:[https://archive.org/details/thibawsqueen00fieluoft/page/n5 ''Thibaw's Queen''] by H Fielding (later H Fielding Hall) 1899 Archive.org.
:Also see Fiction, below.
*[https://archive.org/details/39002086291359.med.yale.edu ''The Burma Medical Manual : containing rules for the management of charitable hospitals and dispensaries and for the guidance of medical officers under the Government of Burma ; issued under authority''] 1898 Archive.org*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-C9BAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 ''The Burma Police Manual, Volume II The Criminal Law bearing on Police Action''] compiled by A St. J Ingle, Officiating District Superintendent of Police 1899 Google Books. *[https://archive.org/details/englishgirlsfirs00elliiala ''An English girl's first impression of Burmah''] by Beth Ellis 1899 Archive.org. (Biographical details of the author.<ref>[http://moncurdg.com/2012/07/24/an-english-girls-first-impressions-of-burmah/ "An English Girl’s First Impressions of Burmah"] July 24, 2012. See the comments for biographical details of the author and information about Remyo(=Maymyo), where she stayed.</ref>)
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/wildsportsofburm00pollrich#page/n5/mode/2up ''Wild sports of Burma and Assam''] by Fitz William Thomas Pollok and W. S. Thom 1900 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092600141#page/n187/mode/2up "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. C1900C 1900. 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]
:[https://archive.org/details/monographonivory00pratrich ''Monograph on Ivory Carving in Burma''] by H S Pratt 1901 Archive.org.
:[httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25624 ''Glass Mosaics of Burma with Photographs''] by Harry L Tilly 1901:[httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/24356 ''Silk in Burma''] by J P Hardiman 1901:[httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25625 ''Silverwork of Burma with photographs by P. Klier''] by Harry L Tilly 1902:[httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25626 ''Wood-carving of Burma, with photographs by P Klier''] by Harry L Tilly 1903. Also available [https://archive.org/details/WoodCarvingOfBurma1903 Archive.org]:[httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/22573 ''Monograph on Iron and Steel Work in Burma''] by E N Bell (cataloged as Bett) 1907. Also available [https://archive.org/details/MonographIronSteelBurma Archive.org]
*''Burma under British Rule - and Before'' by John Nisbet, late Conservator of Forests, Burma. 1901 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/burmaunderbritis01nisb Volume I] Missing Map. [https://archive.org/details/burmaunderbritis02nisb Volume II], [https://archive.org/stream/burmaunderbritis02nisb#page/442/mode/2up Index], page 443, Vol. II.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.221068/page/n3/mode/2up ''A Treatise on Elephants. Their Treatment in Health and Disease''] by Vety.-Capt. G H Evans Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department, Burma 1901 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/elephantstheirdi00evan/page/n9/mode/2up ''Elephants and their Diseases. A Treatise on Elephants''] by Lieut.-Colonel GH Evans , Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department, Burma 1910. Revised edition. Archive.org
:[https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu//mu/islandora/object/mu:109954/#page/1/mode/2up ''Notes on elephants and their care''] by the late Mr W Hepburn. 2nd Impression 1919 (first published 1918? or 1913?) Rangoon. Click to a separate digital file for inserts. The author worked as Veterinary Surgeon to the BBTC Ltd (Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation). Digital Library University of Missouri. [https://archive.org/details/elephants-care-images/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023503174 ''Scenes in Burma: An Album of 125 Views''] c 1900-1910? Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/furtherindia00clif ''Further India: being the story of exploration from the earliest times in Burma, Malaya, Siam and Indo-China''] by Hugh Clifford 1904 with [https://archive.org/stream/furtherindia00clif#page/n472/mode/1up Orographical Map and Political Map of Farther India] and [https://archive.org/stream/furtherindia00clif#page/n473/mode/2up Index] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/frontieroverseas05indi ''Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Volume V: Burma''] Compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Army Headquarters, India. 1907 Archive.org
*''Colonial Administration in the Far East: The Province of Burma'' by Alleyne Ireland 1907 Archive.org. A report prepared on behalf of the University of Chicago. [https://archive.org/details/provinceburmaar03irelgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/stream/provinceburmaar03irelgoog#page/n20/mode/2up Contents], [https://archive.org/details/provinceburmaar00irelgoog Volume II], [https://archive.org/stream/provinceburmaar00irelgoog#page/n12/mode/2up Contents].
*[httphttps://seasiavisionsarchive.libraryorg/details/dli.cornellgranth.edu/bookreader/sea:30091771/#page/8iii/mode/1up 2up ''A Bachelor Girl in Burma''] by G E Mitton, containing ninety-five illustrations from photographs 1907 . Archive.org. Also available [https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea300 Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University]
*[https://archive.org/details/frompekingtoman01johngoog/page/n14 ''From Peking to Mandalay: A Journey from North China to Burma Through Tibetan Ssuchʻuan and Yunnan''] by R F Johnston 1908 Archive.org. Incomplete map. [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49561/49561-h/images/i_map.jpg Map] from the [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49561 Gutenberg.org edition].
*[httphttps://seasiavisionsdigital.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:362/#page/7/modecatalog/1up sea362 ''Twentieth century impressions of Burma : its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources''] by Arnold Wright 1910 Southeast Asia Visions library.cornell.edu. [http://seasiavisionsreader.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:362docviewer/digital?id=sea362#page/1514/mode/1up 2up "Contents"] [http://seasiavisionsreader.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:362docviewer/digital?id=sea362#page/418/mode/1up 2up "Index"]. '''Note''', digital file may be very slow to open. Link to a [http://lawcollections.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea:362 pdf download] lawcollections.library.cornell.edu. Also available [https://repository.museumsiam.org/handle/6622252777/403 Museum Siam Digital Repository].*[httphttps://seasiavisionsdigital.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:297/#pagecatalog/6/mode/2up sea297 ''Experiences of a jungle-wallah''] by Hugh Nisbet 1910 Southeast Asia Visions. library.cornell.edu. The author worked for the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation from 1879. The company logged teak in the Burma forests
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/burmathroughcent00stuarich ''Burma Through The Centuries''] by John Stuart (Managing Proprietor, ''Rangoon Gazette'') 2nd edition Revised and Enlarged 1910 Archive.org
*[httphttps://seasiavisionsarchive.library.cornell.eduorg/details/yearonirrawaddy0000empb/page/n3/catalogmode/sea:302 2up ''A Year on the Irrawaddy''] by E M P-B. 1911. Archive.org. Also available [https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea302 Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University]. The author was the wife of a captain of an oil-steamer.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/biggameshooting00evangoog#page/n13/mode/1up ''Big Game Shooting in Upper Burma''] George Patrick Elystan Evans 1911 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/christianmission00pursiala ''Christian Missions in Burma''] by W C B Purser, Missionary of Kemendine, Rangoon 1911 Archive.org. Church of England Missions.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofupperas00shak#page/n7/mode/2up ''History of Upper Assam, Upper Burmah and North-Eastern Frontier''] by Leslie Waterfield Shakespear 1914 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/infarthestburmar00ward ''In Farthest Burma: The record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet''] by Captain F Kingdon Ward, late Indian Army Reserve of Officers, attached 1/116th Mahrattas. 1921 Archive.org. With a [https://archive.org/stream/infarthestburmar00ward#page/n338/mode/1up Map]. The journey took place in 1914.
*[https://archive.org/details/thackers-med-directory-1915/page/n9/mode/2up ''Thacker's Medical Directory of India, Burma, and Ceylon 1915. Third year of publication''] Archive.org. Also includes a list of Nurses and Midwives.
*[https://archive.org/details/burmeseenchantme00enriiala ''A Burmese Enchantment''] by Captain C M Enriquez, 21st Punjabis (“Theophilus”) 1916 Archive.org. [https://cmenriquez.com/about/ Biography of the author]
:[https://archive.org/details/burmeselonelines00enriiala ''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.
:[https://archive.org/details/burmesewonderlan00enri ''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 [https://archive.org/stream/burmesewonderlan00enri#page/n22/mode/1up Map of Burma] Archive.org
:[httphttps://seasiavisionsarchive.library.cornell.eduorg/details/a-burmese-arcady-c-m-enriquez-1923/catalogmode/sea:017 2up ''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. Archive.org. Also available [https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea017 Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University].
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023047826 ''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.
* ''A Short History of Burma'' by S W Cocks [https://archive.org/details/cu31924022998623/page/n7/mode/2up 1919 2nd edition, revised and partially rewritten], [https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofbu00cockrich/page/n9/mode/2up 1910 edition]. Both Archive.org.*[httphttps://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/tcatalog/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, Cornell University
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023498458#page/n3/mode/2up ''Burma Pictures''] c 1920 Archive.org
*[httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35269 ''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] *[https://archive.org/details/quart-civil-list-burma-1928july/page/n407/mode/2up ''The Quarterly Civil List for Burma 1st July 1928 (No.233)''] and [https://archive.org/details/quart-civil-list-burma-1928july/page/n1/mode/2up ''The Quarterly Civil List for Burma 1st January 1941 (No.283)''] in one digital file Archive.org.:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22The+Quarterly+Civil+List+for+Burma%22&sin=&sort=date Further editions 1934-1941] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210950 ''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. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501356 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.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1935-where-china-meets-burma-life-and-travel-in-the-burma-china-border-lands-by-metford-s-pdf/ ''Where China Meets Burma. : Life and Travel in the Burma-China Border Lands''] by Beatrix Metford 1935. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. (If download does not display, located in Books/Tibet And China). A description of the book elsewhere indicates the author accompanied her husband, who was a British official. They lived for several years in the Shan States, Burma and then in Yunnan, southern China. From elsewhere, it appears she was the second wife of Stanley Wyatt-Smith of Britain's China Consular Service.
*[https://archive.org/details/bamboohospitalst00read/page/n3 ''Bamboo Hospital; the Story of a Missionary family in Burma''] by Katherine Read with Robert O Ballou 1961 Archive.org Lending Library. Albert Henderson, an American Baptist medical missionary and his wife Cora arrived in Burma in 1893, and worked in Mongnai and Taunggyi in the Shan States. Albert was in 1932 awarded a gold Kaiser-I -Hind medal and died in Burma in 1937.
*''Burma Police Manual'' 1985 reprint of [https://www.burmalibrary.org/sites/burmalibrary.org/files/obl/docs17/Police_Manual-Vol.1-ocr-bw-en.pdf Volume I 5th edition 1939], [https://www.burmalibrary.org/docs17/Police_Manual-Vol.2ocr-bw-en.pdf Volume II 5th edition 1940] burmalibrary.org
*[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
* ''Burma During Japanese Occupation Volume II'' 1944. A government Burma Intelligence Bureau report, published at Simla. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206262 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[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
*[https://archive.org/details/elephantbill0000will/page/n1/mode/2up ''Elephant Bill''] by Lt.-Col. J H Williams 1950. The author joined the Bombay Burma Corporation after the end of WW1. Includes [https://archive.org/details/elephantbill0000will/page/170/mode/2up Part II] page 171. The War years. In 1942 he helped escort a group of women and children on the Trek out of Burma and later, in October, he was appointed elephant adviser to the Eastern Army (later XIV the Army). Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [http://www.cbi-theater.com/elephants/elephants.html "Elephants at war"], by Philip Wynter ''Life'' April 10, 1944. In Burma, World War 2 from [http://www.cbi-theater.com/menu/cbi_home.html "China - Burma - India: Remembering the Forgotten Theater of World War II"].
*[https://archive.org/details/theraidersofarak0000unse/mode/2up ''The Raiders of Arakan''] by C. E. Lucas Phillips 1971. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The exploits of Denis Holmes and V Force during WW2.
**[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''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.91147 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
* ''Burma'' by D G E Hall 1950. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57419 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57419/page/n7/mode/1up Contents].
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofmodernb0000unse_b4j9/page/n5/mode/2up ''A History of Modern Burma''] by John F Cady Third printing 1965. [https://archive.org/details/historyofmodernb0000unse_h8r7/page/n5/mode/2up 1958] edition. Archive.org Book to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[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/details/racesexclassunde0000ball ''Race, sex, and class under the Raj : imperial attitudes and policies and their critics, 1793-1905''] by Kenneth Ballhatchet 1980. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes some content about Burma.
*Dictionaries etc
**[https://archive.org/details/acw6962.0001.001.umich.edu/page/n5/mode/2up ''Judson's Burmese-English dictionary''] Revised and enlarged by Robert C Stevenson, Burma Commission. 1893 Archive.org. Contains Burmese script.
* 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/unset0000unse_o4g1/mode/2up ''The Glass Palace : a novel''] by Amitav Ghosh 2001. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Palace The Glass Palace] Wikipedia. The story begins story in Mandalay (Burma) in 1885, during the last days of the Konbaung Dynasty, during the [[3rd Burma War]].
*[https://archive.org/details/pianotuner0000maso_z2b3/mode/2up ''The Piano Tuner''] by Daniel Mason (Daniel Philippe) 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Set in 1886.
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