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The Asiatic Review January 1940

1940

A2 Burma and Her Land Communications but only the existing and possible communications by land between Burma and the neighbouring countries which have become a matter of much greater interest owing to the Sino-Japanese war and the construction of the motor road from the Yangtze to the Burma frontier which has given reality to some extent to the prject which has been discussed for the last seve [...] The Siamese or Thai as they now ask to be officially called are of the same race as the Shans who form the bulk of the inhabitants of the plateau country on the east of Burma and of three or four of the northernmost districts of Burma proper and it is only natural that there should have been constant relations more often warlike than peaceful between the two countries. [...] The first possibility is to cross the mountains which separate Burma proper from Arakan the coastal strip running from the borders of Bengal down to Cape Negrais and thence on to Chittagong where there is a railway to Calcutta; the second is to start from some point in the north of Burma and link up with the Assam railway. [...] There are two possible passes over the mountains from Burma to Arakan the Taungup pass in the extreme south leading from Padaung opposite Prome on the Irrawaddy to Taungup on the Arakan coast and thence up the whole length of Arakan to Chittagong and the An pass leading from Minbu on the Irrwaddy to the neighbourhood of Kyaukpyu. [...] When the question of the separation of Burma from India was under cosideration the principal relevancy of Burma's land communications was to the question of Burma's defence and the difficulties of transport and access were then to that extent an asset in that they diminished the chances of invasion and decreased the necessity for military protection.
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Frontmatter
i-xiv unknown view
Burma and Her Land Communications
1-17 F. Leach view
Kangra Kulu and Kashmir
18-30 Catherine Walter view
India’s Economic Contributions to the War
31-61 Frank Noyce view
India’s Constitution and the War
62-80 Alfred Watson view
The Arabs and Democracy
81-88 E. Ross view
The Nature of Japanese Poetry
89-93 Oswald Tuck view
The French Colonial Contribution Since the Beginning of the War
94-97 Georges Mandel view
Travels in the Ancient Province of Armenia Minor—I
98-111 E.H. King view
Housing Improvements in Britain and India: a Comparison
112-117 B.S. Townroe view
The Sacrifices of the Son of Heaven
118-128 Alan Brodrik view
France in the Far East
129-133 Charles Kincaid view
Malaya and the Economic War
134-136 E. Jago view
The Development of Netherlands Administration in the East Indies
137-144 Charles Morrell view
India and the International Labour Problems of the Future
145-148 Firozkhan Noon view
Mysore: a Land of Progress
149-154 Robert Parry-Ellis view
A Moral Challenge to India
155-157 unknown view
Alexandra Docks Bombay During the Great War
158-162 H.C. Sparke view
India’s Navy: New Setting for Old Traditions
163-165 unknown view
Reviews of Books
166-206 unknown view