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- Title Burma and the Enemy Within
- Author Terence Blackburn
- Binding Hardcover
- Language ENG
- Publisher APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi
- Date 2006
- ISBN 9788176489980
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Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 2006. Paperback. Very Good/no dj. 1.00. Blackburn, Terence R.. A hundred and twenty years ago, on 29 November 1885, the British finally acquired the remainder of the country of Burma in the name of the Queen Empress although the country was in fact annexed by the mill owners of Lancashire, the cutlers of Sheffield and the merchants of London. Their Chambers of Commerce had bombarded Lord Randolph Churchill, the Secretary of State for India, with memos demanding that the country be opened to their goods and that access be made through Burma to Yunnan and China, this they regarded as an El Dorado. In fact, it proved to be a chimera, no fortunes were to come out of China. Two wars preceded the final act. In the first, the Burmese lost their maritime provinces, further, the King of Burma was to cede Arakan, Ramree, Cheduba and Sandoway to the East India Company. He also had to give up all rights to Assam, Jaintia, Cachar and Manipur, and pay the crippling sum of one million…
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