Burmese Colonialism and Resistance

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This paper examines the history of resistance to British colonization by the Burmese people throughout the history of the British rule. The effects of British education and westernization, as well as the encouragement by the British to sustain ethnic and religious unrest in Burma, are two of the factors discussed in this paper.

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"Burmese Colonialism and Resistance Introduction The small country of Burma, or Myanmar, as it has been called by its current dictatorship since 1988, in Southeast Asia, is wedged between India and China, and also borders Laos, Thailand and Bangladesh. It has been a country of political unrest since the very early days of colonization in the region, and its military history goes back at least to the first century BC (Woodman 11). In 1824 Burmese military expansion caused conflict with British interests in India, and a two year war initiated a century of colonization and conflict with Britain that only ended in 1947 (Liang, and Scalapino 3)."

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