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Indian Statutory Commission. Memorandum Submitted by the Government of Burma to the Indian Statutory Commission

1930

It stretches along both banks of the Irrawaddy from the north of Mandalay to the south of Thayetmyo and lies between the Arakan Yomas on the west and the hills rising up to the Shan plateau on the east. [...] The course of the Sittang is about midway btween the valleys of the Irrawaddy and the Salween and it enters the northern apex of the Gulf of Martaban at a point about equidistant from the ports of Rangoon and Moulmein. [...] The consttution of the Legislative Council is dealt with fully elsewhere ; the subjects transferred to the control of the two Ministers are more numerous than in other Provinces and include the Forest Department which is of great importance to the Province on account of the revenue involved and its close and constant contact with the life of the people. [...] Of the indigenous races the Burmese is the most numerous ; including in the term Burmese the Arakanese Tavoyans and other local varieties commonly called Burmese and differing only in unimportant ways from the main body of the race the Burmese number 8'7 millions and so form two-thirds of the entire population. [...] Of the 201 000 Indians enumerated in Akyab 78 000 males and 76 000 females were born in the district : four-fifths of the total Indian popultion are in Akyab Town and the townships near the Indian border and the proportion of Indians to the total population in the other townships of the district is small.
government politics public policy
Pages
593
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.100213
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii unknown view
Part I. Introductory
1-27 unknown view
Part II. The Existing System of Government
28-248 unknown view
Part III. Growth of Representative Institutions —the Legislature
249-421 unknown view
Part IV. Local Self-Government
422-493 unknown view
Part V. Growth of Education
494-518 unknown view
Part VI. Note on the Working of the Melton Settlement in Burma
519-558 unknown view
Part VII. Excluded Areas and Minor Adjustments of the Electorate etc
559-564 unknown view
Part VIII. Memorandum on the Separation of Burma from British India
565-575 unknown view
Part IX. Memorandum of General Views and Suggestions
576-590 unknown view