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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023498458#page/n3/mode/2up ''Burma Pictures''] c 1920 Archive.org
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.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.
*[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://dli.serc.iisc.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://dli.serc.iisc.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
*[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]].
*[http://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]
