The British colonized Burma in a series of three wars beginning in 1824. During their rule, the Arakan problem declined as the British allowed for a relative degree of local autonomy. From 1824 to ...

The new state of the Union of Burma which was established early ... followed by the strong centralized rule of the British, they arc but ill prepared for the choices which democracy inevitably ...

He fondly remembers the names of his British commanders. "We kept our loyalty," he says. But Britain did very little to repay this loyalty. Sally McLean grew up steeped in stories of Burma.

The Indians, our neighbors to the west, have been trading and settling in Burma for centuries, attracted by the opportunities of our fertile, uncrowded country. The British used cheap Indian labor ...