Area Handbook for Burma, Volume 550, Issue 61

activities administration agricultural Alaungpaya Andaman Sea Arakan areas Asian Aung banks British Buddhist Burma proper Burmese centers central Chinese Chins civil colonial Communist China Constitution country's courts cultivation culture Delta economic established ethnic groups ethnic minorities export farm farmers foreign frontier important increased independence Indian individual industry Irrawaddy Irrawaddy River Japanese Kachins Karens Kayah labor land language leaders Lower Burma major Mandalay ment military million monastery monastic monks Moulmein nationalist officers operated organization pagoda party percent persons political population production programs Rangoon Rangoon University relations religion religious Revolutionary Council rice River rural Salween River schools Shan shinbyu Sittang Rivers social socialist society Southeast Asia status structure Taunggyi Tenasserim Thailand Thakin Thingyan tion trade traditional Union of Burma United Upper Burma urban village Western Win government workers World World War II