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3 days ago · As the guerrillas fought on, the British adopted a “strategic hamlet” plan, whereby villages were burned and families who had supplied villages with their leaders were uprooted from their homes and sent away to Lower Burma (which had been under British control since the Second Anglo-Burmese War).
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2 days ago · The British in Burma, 1885–1948. The third of the Anglo-Burmese Wars lasted less than two weeks during November 1885, with the British taking Mandalay, which had become the capital of northern Myanmar in 1857, with remarkable alacrity.
2 days ago · The British in Burma, 1885–1948. The initial impact of colonialism; The religious dilemma; The colonial economy; The emergence of nationalism; World War II and after; Since independence. The unsettled early years, 1948–62; The socialist state, 1962–88; Myanmar since 1988
5 days ago · Shortly after 10.30 am on the morning of 19 th July 1947, de facto Burmese Prime Minister Aung San, founder of the Burmese army, was sitting in a meeting of the Executive Council, the shadow government of Burma, set up by the British in preparation for the transfer of power from colonial rule to an independent Burma. Suddenly, without warning ...
Sep 3, 2024 · The Burmese Government and the Buddhist majority see the Rohingya as a threat to identity, competitors for jobs and resources, terrorists, and some still resent them for their alliance with Burma’s British colonizers during its 19 th century. Since at least the 1960s, they have been subjected to systematic human rights abuses, violence ...
2 days ago · Under British rule, the colonial government in Burma abstained from recruiting Burmese soldiers into the East India Company forces (and later the British Indian Army), instead relying on pre-existing Indian sepoys and Nepalese Gurkhas to garrison the nascent colony.
2 days ago · Following the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the Government of India Act 1858 led to the British Crown assuming direct control of present day Bangladesh, Pakistan and India in the form of the new British Indian Empire.
