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© Kamla-Raj 2003 Stud. Tribes Tribals, 1 (1): 35-41 (2003)
Colonial Administrators and Their Tribal Preferences. A North Burma Case Study 1945-8. Bias, Beneficial Policy, Inevitability of Divisions or Divide and Rule
R.E.S. Tanner
The Footprint, Padworth Common, Reading, Berks RG7 4QG, United Kingdom
KeyWords Tribe; cost; war; nationalism; ideology.
Abstract Burma divided between the Burmese and the tribal peoples as an administrative necessity and the latter wished this difference to be maintained and the war directly supported this claim. British wishes and administrative practices were irrelevant to pre-Independence realities.
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