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Rangoon, in what was formerly known as Lower Burma, was the capital of British Burma from 1885 and a separate district in Pegu Division during the British period. It was also the headquarters of Hanthawaddy District .
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The British colonial rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the successive three Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony, and finally independence.
Jan 13, 2024 · Why Burma was separated from British India. Colonial administrators in Burma were largely in favour of removing the province from the rest of India and administering it as a separate colony.
Sep 30, 2017 · The British colony of Burma was part of the British run-state in India, the Empire of India, from 1824 to 1937. Burma was separated from the rest of the Indian Empire in 1937, just ten...
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Yangon (Burmese: ရန်ကုန်; pronounced [jàɰ̃.ɡòʊɰ̃]), formerly romanized as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government relocated the administrative functions to the purpose-built capital ...
Feb 24, 2017 · Before the Japanese could step on British India, it was Burma that they first infiltrated in December 1942. Rangoon at this point in time was a predominantly Indian city. With Burma under British rule, Indians migrating there for better work prospects was very common in the 19th century.
Burma. In the centuries, prior to British conquest of lower Burma Indians were primarily engaged in trade and were located mostly in Rangoon. After 1852, however, Indians migrated to Lower Burma in increasing numbers to fill a wide range of positions crea-ted by the expanding economy and greatly enlarged bureaucracy of the new province of India.
