11 Oct 2005

Delineating British Burma, British Confidential and Official Print, c. 1826-1949
IDC Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands
Supplied note: "Delineating British Burma, British Confidential and Official Print, c. 1826-1949.
This collection of official and confidential print reflects the long process of information gathering, codification, and dissemination that both accompanied and followed on from the three stages of the British annexation of Burma. It combines the kind of Intelligence Branch investigations that were routinely produced for the states bordering on British India, with a uniquely complete set of gazetteers/topographical works and reports covering the districts and states of British Burma and its boundaries. - wl."
[Note: Information about a collection of 41 Microfilm reels. Also available on microfiche. Scope Approx. 300 items, totalling c. 20,000 - ed.]
URL http://www.idc.nl/ez/30
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Willemijn Lindhout (wlindhout@idc.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30