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Burmese capital falls to Japan 80 years ago

(March 4, 20222) This week, 80 years ago, the Burmese capital of Rangoon (now Yangon) was captured by the Japanese Fifteenth Army, commanded by Shōjirō Iida, after the British had

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Waves Across the South by Sujit Sivasundaram review – the age of revolutions reconceived

Waves Across the South by Sujit Sivasundaram review – the age of revolutions reconceived Samanth Subramanian © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images In 1826, crowds poured into the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly to gape at a spoil of war: a Burmese imperial carriage, nearly 14ft long, its spokes silvered, its body clothed in gilt and its seven-tiers studded with 20,000 precious stones. An accompanying handbook showed, in a sketch, how the carriage would have been pulled by a pair of white elephants. How is it, the handbook’s authors wondered, that the Burmese, “scarcely removed from barbarism”, produced an object so magnificent? It had been captured two years earlier, in the first Anglo-Burmese war, from a town on the Dawei River, as British forces moved up its waters to subdue the forces of the kingdom of Ava. For Britons, the Times predicted, the Burmese carriage would be “equally attractive with the carriage of Buonapar

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Waves Across the South by Sujit Sivasundaram review

Last modified on Mon 14 Dec 2020 04.02 EST In 1826, crowds poured into the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly to gape at a spoil of war: a Burmese imperial carriage, nearly 14ft long, its spokes silvered, its body clothed in gilt and its seven-tiers studded with 20,000 precious stones. An accompanying handbook showed, in a sketch, how the carriage would have been pulled by a pair of white elephants. How is it, the handbookâs authors wondered, that the Burmese, âscarcely removed from barbarismâ, produced an object so magnificent? It had been captured two years earlier, in the first Anglo-Burmese war, from a town on the Dawei River, as British forces moved up its waters to subdue the forces of the kingdom of Ava. For Britons, the Times predicted, the Burmese carriage would be âequally attractive with the carriage of Buonaparteâ, which had been displayed a decade earlier.

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