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Burma

1945

True the reporter speeding up the Burma road with the hot breath of the dragon on the back of his neck may have more vivid memories of the Japanese triumphal entry into Burma than will the sober research scholar working through the documents but he is likely also to overestimate the number and power of the Japanese and to see hostile Burmans behind every toddy palm from Moulmein and Pegu to the [...] Yet the very name of the country is derived from the Chinese " Mien " rather than from the Indian " Brahma." Absorption of the Burmese indivduality by the more virile civilizations of India and China has been prevented only by the Bay of Bengal on the west and the mountain fastnesses on the north. [...] They occupy the valleys of the Irrawaddy the lower Chindwin the Sittang and the vicinity of Moulmein. [...] In 1550 Tabinshweyti the young King of Toungoo became corrupted by his association with the feringhi and his throne was seized by Byinnaung the Napoleon of Burma." In a burst of glory this contemporary of Queen Elizabeth and the Emperor Akbar extended his conquests to Manipur and Yunnan on the north and to the Mekong Chiengmai and Ayuthia on the east. [...] By mid-summer he took the Shwe Dagon Pagoda from the Kings of Pegu and named the surrounding village Rangoon the end of the war." Alaungpaya having established a bloody sort of unity from Yunnan to the Gulf of Martaban became the national hero of Burma and the founder of its last dynasty of kings that ruled until Theebaw and Supayalat were exiled in 1886.
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Pages
190
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.141744
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
1-10 John L. Christian view
Chapter One. Burma : Where India and China Meet
11-16 unknown view
Chapter Two. Burma : The Country
17-21 unknown view
Chapter Three. The Irrawaddy : River of Gems
22-27 unknown view
Chapter Four. The Burmese : Irish of the East
28-35 unknown view
Chapter Five. Burma's History : Pageantry of the Past
36-45 unknown view
Chapter Six. Buddhism : The Great Peace
45-57 unknown view
Chapter Seven. Burmese Women : Daughters of Dreamers
58-65 unknown view
Chapter Eight. Immigrants : Strangers in the Land
66-70 unknown view
Chapter Nine. Rangoon : City of Restless Peace
70-74 unknown view
Chapter Ten. The Shan States : Back of Beyond
74-83 unknown view
Chapter Eleven Betes Noir : The Imperialists
84-91 unknown view
Chapter Twelve. Politics : As Usual
92-101 unknown view
Chapter Thirteen. Burma Road : Graveyard of Trucks
101-108 unknown view
Chapter Fourteen. The Campaign for Burma
109-122 unknown view
Chapter Fifteen. Burma Under the Japanese : Co-Prosperity
122-135 unknown view
Chapter Sixteen Wingate's Expedition : Vanguard of Victory
136-151 unknown view
Chapter Seventeen. Post-War Burma
151-163 unknown view
Epilogue
163-166 unknown view
Appendix I. Order Of The Day Issued By Gerieral Wingate To His Troops As They Crossed The Indo-Burma Frontier
167-167 unknown view
Appendix II. Glossary
168-169 unknown view
Appendix III. Burmese Poetry and Prose
169-173 unknown view
Index
174-176 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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