A Civil Servant in Burma, by Sir Herbert Thirkell White, K.C.I.E
by Sir Herbert Thirkell White
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About this eBook
- Author
- White, Herbert Thirkell, Sir, 1855-1931
- Title
- A Civil Servant in Burma
- Credits
- Produced by Jane Robins, Paul Clark and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
- Subject
- Burma
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 43075
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43075
- Release Date
- July 1, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A CIVIL SERVANT IN BURMA
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.NOTE
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6.ERRATUM.
- 7.CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY: A RETROSPECT AND SOME COMPARISONS
- 8.CHAPTER II EARLY YEARS AND FIRST IMPRESSIONS
- 9.CHAPTER III THE FIRST SUBDIVISION: THE SECRETARIAT
- 10.CHAPTER IV SOME ASPECTS OF BURMESE LIFE AND CHARACTER
- 11.CHAPTER V ON THE FRONTIER
- 12.CHAPTER VI THE SECRETARIAT: THE LAST SUBDIVISION
- 13.CHAPTER VII THE TAKING OF MANDALAY
- 14.CHAPTER VIII EARLY DAYS AT MANDALAY
- 15.CHAPTER IX LORD DUFFERIN’S VISIT: MANDALAY ONCE MORE
- 16.CHAPTER X THE FIRST YEAR AFTER THE ANNEXATION
- 17.CHAPTER XI A FEW WORDS ON BUDDHISM
- 18.CHAPTER XII UNDER SIR CHARLES CROSTHWAITE, 1887-1890
- 19.CHAPTER XIII A VISIT TO THE SHAN STATES
- 20.CHAPTER XIV RANGOON—MANDALAY
- 21.CHAPTER XV LOWER BURMA ONCE MORE
- 22.CHAPTER XVI MANDALAY—THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION
- 23.CHAPTER XVII THE CHIEF COURT—LAST YEARS IN BURMA
- 24.GLOSSARY — FOOTNOTES:
- 25.INDEX
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