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The Burma Delta Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier 1852-1941 - New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies Author: In the decades following its annexation to the Indian Empire in 1852, Lower Burma (the Irrawaddy-Sittang delta region) was transformed from an underdeveloped and sparsely populated backwater of the Konbaung Empire into the world?s largest exporter of rice. This seminal and far-reaching work focuses on two major aspects of that transformation: th... more »
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