The Burma Delta: Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852-1941 by Michael B. Adas

The Burma Delta: Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852-1941

New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies

Michael B. Adas

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In the decades following its annexation to the Indian Empire in 1852, Lower Burma (the Irrawaddy-Sittang delta region) was transformed from an underdeveloped and sparsely populated backwater of the Konbaung Empire into the world's largest exporter...

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