The Burma Delta. Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852-1941
Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1974. After '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 of rice. This work focuses on ... the growth of..... More