title: British rule in Burma
text: British rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948. This started from the successive three Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony. The rule finally ended with independence. The region under British control was known as British Burma.
  
  Further reading
   Baird-Murray, Maureen [1998]. A World Overturned: a Burmese Childhood 1933–47. London: Constable.  Memoirs of the Anglo-Irish-Burmese daughter of a Burma Frontier Service officer, including her stay in an Italian convent during the Japanese occupation.
   
   Desai, Walter Sadgun (1968). History of the British Residency in Burma. London: Gregg International. .
   
   Harvey, Godfrey (1992). British Rule in Burma 1824–1942. London: AMS Pr. .
   
    ( http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4729301/Cite)
  
  Notes
  
  Other websites
   J. S. Furnivall, "Burma, Past and Present", Far Eastern Survey, Vol. 22, No. 3 (25 February 1953), pp. 21–26, Institute of Pacific Relations. <http://jstor.org/stable/3024126>
   Ernest Chew, "The Withdrawal of the Last British Residency from Upper Burma in 1879", Journal of Southeast Asian History, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Sep. 1969), pp. 253–278, Cambridge University Press. <http://jstor.org/stable/20067745>
   Michael W. Charney: Burma, in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War.
  
  Former countries
  Burma
  History of Myanmar
  19th century in Asia
  20th century in Asia
  1824 establishments
  1948 disestablishments