A post from the archives
1 April 1937
Burma was separated from India
This was arguably the most important single development in 20th century Burmese history. Independence from Britain would almost certainly have taken place one way or another after WW2. But if Burma had not been separated from India in 1937, the politics around independence in the late 1940s or 1950s would have been very different, and intertwined with questions regarding the creation of Pakistan.
The relatively easy partition of 1937 also led London and Delhi civil servants later to assume...
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