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The Evacuation of Civilians from Burma
The string of military defeats during 1942 marked the end of British hegemony in Southeast Asia, finally destroying the myth of British imperial invincibility. The Japanese attack on Burma led to a hurried and often poorly organized evacuation of Indian and European civilians from the country. The evacuation was a public humiliation for the British and marked the end of their role in Burma. The Evacuation of Civilians from Burma investigates the social and political background to the evacuation, and the consequences of its failure. Utilizing unpublished letters, diaries, memoirs and official reports, Michael Leigh provides the first comprehensive account of the evacuation, analyzing its source in the structures of colonial society, fractured race relations and in the turbulent politics of colonial Burma.
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The collapse of British rule in Burma : the civilian evacuation and independence
In May 1942 colonial Burma was in a state of military, economic and constitutional collapse. Japanese forces controlled almost the whole country and thousands of evacuees were trapped in a huge area of no-man's-land in the north. They made their way to India through the so-called 'jungles of death', attempting to trek out of Burma amidst perilous conditions. Drawing on diverse and previously unpublished accounts, Michael D. Leigh analyses the experiences of evacuees in both Burma and India and critically examines the impact of evacuation on colonial and Burmese politics in the lead-up to independence in 1948. This study will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Burmese history, 20th-century imperialism and the global reach of the Second World War.
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Corporate Character: Representing Imperial Power in British India, 1786–1901
First is the proposal that the British Empire was less scarred by internal scandals than other empires in the nineteenth century, which Kent suggests had come about because Britain placed greater emphasis on so-called character and morality than any other imperial power, and because its imperial agents played such a key role. Kent guides the reader through political complexity, counter-intuition, and imperial culture. [...]he has taken a most innovative approach-imperial agency is an interesting concept in an otherwise well-worked theme.
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