The Province of Burma: A Report Prepared on Behalf of the University of Chicago, Volume 2Houghton, Mifflin, 1907 - Burma Alleyne Ireland (1871-1951) was a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society in London who, in 1901, was appointed by the University of Chicago to head a commission to study colonial administration in the Far East. Ireland's first major project, published in 1907, was this exhaustive, two-volume study of Burma, at the time under British rule as a province of the Indian Empire. Volume one contains a general description of Burma, a history of Britain's acquisition of the colony, and chapters on the people, government, general administration, civil service, police administration, judicial administration, prison administration, and educational system. Volume two is devoted to economic and administrative affairs, including financial administration, the land revenue system, public works, trade and shipping, and the administration of forests, towns, villages, and harbors. Twenty-one appendices provide additional detail, including economic and demographic statistics, the texts of treaties, agreements, and reports, a bibliography, and a glossary of Indian and Burmese words. At the end of volume one is a large foldout map of Burma by Edinburgh mapmakers John Bartholomew & Co. |
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31 March Accountant-General acre administration agricultural amount Annual Appendix appointed assessment audit British Burmese Calcutta cattle cent CHAPTER charges Chin Hills Civil coasting trade committee Comptroller and Auditor-General cost criminal cultivation Deputy Commissioner duties ending 31 March estimate examination Excise expenditure EXPORTED FROM BURMA foreign trade funds Government of India Governor-General in Council Govt grant head headman holding Imperial IMPORTED INTO BURMA included increase Indian Ports Irrigation Karenni kwin Land Revenue licenses loans Lower Burma Mandalay manufactures March 31 ment MERCHANDISE IMPORTED Miscellaneous Municipal Myelat notification opium payment person powers PRINCIPAL ARTICLES produce proposed Province Provincial Governments Public Works Department Railway Rangoon rates receipts Regulation Report reserved forest rules rupees sanction Settlement Officer Shwebo soil Southern Shan statement statistics Superintendent survey Taunggyi teak timber tion Tonnage Total tract trade of Burma Upper Burma village
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