Download or read book Burma Under British Rule and Before, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by John Nisbet and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Burma Under British Rule and Before, Vol. 1 of 2 The plan of the book was sketched early in 1896, and several chapters of it were then written, but press of official work prevented its completion till the leisure oof furlough from 1898 - 1900. In the meantime the official Gazetteer of Upper Burma has been published, Wth also deals with many of the matters here treated of. The two works, however, cannot in any way clash. The one is an official record, the other is an independent publication meant for such of the general public as may feel an interest in Burma or in its administration by the British. If there be any similarity between portions of the two books with regard to matters specially affecting Upper Burma, this can only be due to the fact that the actual historical data have been obtained from the same sources, because neither author has yet seen the work of the other. The scheme which has been followed was to treat each subject comprehensively in a chapter by itself. One drawback to this method is the necessity for occasional repetitions and references to previous pages, but the advantages seemed to outweigh this disadvantage. The French position in indo-china has of course been dealt with at considerable length. But even since the chapter dealing with Britain and France in Further India and Western China has been passed for press, matters affecting French railway enterprise in south-western China have again advanced. The latest account of the existing position will be found in an article on The French Railway into Yum-nan in the Times of july 22, 1901, to which the attention of those specially interested in this subject may be drawn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.