Lost Footsteps
English Myanmar
Lost Footsteps

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  • Tarling, Nicholas, ed., Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, 2 vols., Cambridge, 1993.
  • Taw Sein Ko, ‘A Study in Burmese Sociology’, Journal of the Burmese Research Society, 10 (1920).
  • Taylor, Robert,
    • An Undeveloped State: The Study of Modern Burma’s Politics,Monash, 1983.
    • The State in Burma, London, 1987.
  • Tet Htoot, ‘The Nature of the Burmese Chronicles’, in D.G.E. Hall, ed., Historians of Southeast Asia, London, 1961.
  • Than Tun,
    • ‘Administration under King Thalun (1629-1648)’, Journal of the Burma Research Society, 51 (1968), 173-89.
    • Essays on the History and Buddhism of Burma, Edinburgh, 1988.
  • Thaung, ‘Burmese Kingship During the Reign of King Mindon’, Journal of the Burma Research Society, 49 (1966), 1-22.
  • Tin Ohn, ‘Modern Historical Writing in Burmese’, in D.G.E. Hall, ed., Historians of Southeast Asia, London, 1961.
  • Tinker, Hugh,The Union of Burma: A Study of the First Years of Independence, Oxford, 1961.
  • Trager, Frank, Burma: From Kingdom to Republic: A Historical and Political Analysis,London, 1966.
  • Trocki, A., ‘Political Structures in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries’, in Nicholas Tarling, ed., The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, vol. II, Cambridge, 1993.
  • Tun Wai,
    • Economic Development of Burma from 1800 til 1940, Rangoon, 1961.
    • Burma’s Currency and Credit, Bombay, 1962.
  • Turrell, Robert Vicant, ‘Conquest and Concession: The Case of the Burma Ruby Mines’, Modern Asian Studies, 22 (1988), 145-63.
  • Turwiel, B.J., A History of Modern Thailand, 1767-1942, St Lucia, 1983.
  • Twitchett, Denis and Fairbank, John K., ed. The Cambridge History of China,vol. II: Late Ch’ing, 1800-1911,part 2, Cambridge, 1980.
  • Vandergeest, Peter, ‘Hierarchy and Power in Pre-National Buddhist States’, Modern Asian Studies, 27 (1993), 843-71.
  • Woodman, Dorothy, The Making of Burma, London, 1962.
  • Woodside, Alexander, Community and Revolution in Modern Vietnam,Boston, 1976.
  • Wyatt, David,
    • A Short History of Thailand, New Haven, 1984.
    • Studies in Thai History, Chiang Mai, 1994.
  • Wyatt, David and Woodside, Alexander, eds., Moral Order and the Question of Change: Essays on Southeast Asian Thought, New Haven, 1982.
  • Yeager, Moshe, The Muslims of Burma: A Study of a Minority Group,Wiesbaden, 1972.
  • Yi Yi, ‘Life at the Burmese Court under the Konbaung Kings’, Journal of the Burma Research Society,44 (1961), 85-129.

Government of Burma publications in English

  • Government of Burma, Economic and Social Board, Office of the Prime Minister, A Study of the Social and Economic History of Burma (The British Period).Part V: Burma Under the Chief Commissioners 1886-7 to 1896-7,Rangoon, 1957.

India Office archives (India Office Library, London)

Correspondence
  • Secret Correspondence with India.
  • Political Correspondence with India.
  • Political and Secret Correspondence with India.
Proceedings
  • India Foreign (Secret) Proceedings.
  • India Foreign (Political) Proceedings.
  • Proceedings of the Finance Departments (Upper Burma).
  • India Judicial Proceedings (Upper Burma).
  • Revenue and Agriculture Department Proceedings (Upper Burma).
  • Burma Finance Proceedings (Upper Burma).
  • Burma Home Proceedings.
  • Burma Judicial Proceedings.
  • Burma Military Proceedings.
  • Upper Burma Proceedings (Foreign Department).
  • Upper Burma Rulings.
Manuscript collections (India Office Library, London)
  • Papers of Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple Blackwood, First Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Microfilm Reels 516-34.
  • Papers of Sir Edward Sladen, MSS. Eur. E. 290/12.
  • Papers of Sir Herbert Thirkell White, MSS. Eur. E. 254.

Government of India official publications: settlement reports

  • Furnival, J.S., Report on the Settlement Operations in the Myingyan District, Season 1909-1913,Rangoon, 1915.
  • Gibson, R.A.,Report on the Settlement Operations in the Meiktila District, Season 1896-1898, Rangoon. 1900.
  • Report on the Settlement Operations in the Yamethin District, Season 1898-1901, Rangoon 1902.
  • Report on the Revision Settlement Operations in the Mandalay District, Season 1903-1905, Rangoon, 1905.
  • Hertz, W.A.,Report on the Settlement Operations in the Magwe District, Season 1897-1903, Rangoon, 1905.
  • Owens, F.C., Report on the Settlement Operations in the Pakokku District, Season 1905-1910, Rangoon, 1910.
  • Parlett, L.M., Report on the Settlement Operations in the Sagaing District, Season 1893-1900, Rangoon, 1903.
  • Parsons, O.S., Report on the Settlement Operations in the Minbu District, Season 1893-1897, Rangoon, 1900.
  • Reynolds, H.O.,Report on the Revision Settlement Operations in the Magwe District, Season 1915-1919,Rangoon, 1921.
  • Westlake, A.,Report on the Settlement Operations in the Kyauksè District, Season 1890-1891 and Part of Season 1891-1892, Rangoon, 1892.
  • Williamson, A.,Report on the Revision Settlement Operations in the Shwebo District, Season 1918-1923,Rangoon 1924.

Government of India publications: gazetteers

  • Dawson, G.W.,Burma Gazetteer – Bhamo District, 2 vols., Rangoon, 1912.
  • Scott, J.G. and Hardiman, J.P., comps., Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States, 5 vols. In 2 parts, Rangoon, 1900-01.
  • Searle, H.F.,Burma Gazetteer – Mandalay District, 2 vols., Rangoon. 1928.
  • Spearman, H.S., British Burma Gazetteer, 2 vols., Rangoon, 1878-80.
  • Stewart, J.A., Burma Gazetteer – Kyauksè District, 2 vols., Rangoon, 1925.
  • Wilkie, R.S.,Burma Gazetteer – Yamèthin District, 2 vols., Rangoon, 1934.
  • Williamson, A., Burma Gazetteer – Shwebo District, 2 vols., Rangoon, 1929.

Government of India official publications: annual reports and censuses

  • Census of India, 1891,Burma Report 9, Rangoon, 1892.
  • Census of India, 1901, Burma Report 12, Rangoon, 1902.
  • Report on the Administration of Burma, 1861/2-1909/10.
  • Annual Statement of the Trade and Navigation of the Province of British Burma Having a Seaborne Trade,1868/9-1874/5.
  • Annual Report of Maritime Trade and Customs.
  • Report on the Inland Trade of Burma.
  • Report on the Administration of Civil Jusice, 1891-1900.
  • Criminal Justice Report of Lower Burma, 1886-90.
  • Report on Civil Justice in Burma, 1891-1904.
  • Report on the Sanitary Administration of Burma,1890-1900.
  • Report on the Revenue Administration of Burma.

Government of India official publications: other

  • History of the Third Burmese War (1885, 1886, 1887),Period One, Calcultta, 1887.
  • Official Narrative of the Expedition to Explore the Trade Routes to China via Bhamo under the Guidance of Major E.B. Sladen, Political Agent, Mandalay, with Connected Papers,1871.
  • Report on the Petroleum Industry in Upper Burma from the End of the Last Century to the Beginning of 1891, Rangoon, 1892.
  • The Upper Burma Land Revenue Manual, Rangoon, 1900.

British parliamentary publications

  • Papers Relating to Hostilities with Burma,London, 1852.
  • Paper Relating to British Burma. Correspondence Relative to the Treaty of the 26thOctober 1867, London, 1868.
  • Correspondence Relating to the Affairs of Burmah Since the Death of the Late King, London, 1885.
  • Correspondence Relating to the Affairs of Upper Burmah 1880-85,London, 1885.
  • Furthe Correspondence Relating to Burmah, London, 1886.

Non-British government publications

  • Government of China, Chinese Maritime Customs Decennial Reports 1892-1901.